Panel: Insurer Breached Duty To Defend, Is Equitably Responsible For Defense Costs

(January 18, 2018, 3:19 PM EST) -- MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin appeals panel on Jan. 17 affirmed that an insurer is equitably responsible for a government agency insured’s $1.55 million underlying defense costs because it breached its duty to defend the insured against a lawsuit alleging that the insured was negligent in the inspection, maintenance, repair and operation of its sewer system before and during a June 2008 rain event in the greater Milwaukee area (Steadfast Insurance Company v. Greenwich Insurance Company, No. 2016AP1631, Wis. App., Dist. 1, 2018 Wisc. App. LEXIS 51)....

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