Justice: Engineer’s Insurer Has No Duty To Defend Against Wrongful Death Suit

(March 23, 2018, 7:32 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York justice on March 13 held that due to a limitation in a policy endorsement, an engineer’s insurer does not owe additional insured coverage to a construction company and the owner of a premises where a fatal injury occurred and, therefore, has no duty to defend them against an underlying wrongful death lawsuit (New York Marine and General Insurance Company, et al. v. American Empire Insurance Company, et al., No. 151192/2017, N.Y. Sup., New York Co., 2018 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 882)....