Professional Liability Insurer Has No Duty To Cover Negligent Notarization Claims

Mealey's (March 27, 2018, 9:42 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Granting a professional liability insurer’s motion for summary judgment in its declaratory judgment lawsuit, a Louisiana federal judge on March 22 found that a policy exclusion relieves the insurer of the duty to defend and indemnify its law firm insured against an underlying negligent notarization claim (Westport Insurance Corp. v. Juge Napolitano Guilbeau Ruli & Frieman, et al., No. 17-12536, E.D. La., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47199)....