Missouri Panel: Failure To Award Degree Is Not ‘Property Damage’; No Coverage Owed

(September 26, 2018, 11:04 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A Missouri appeals panel on Sept. 25 held that although an underlying defendant’s conduct of selling and collecting tuition for a nonexistent degree is “abhorrent,” the allegations against it fail to trigger “property damage” coverage under a business liability insurance policy, affirming a lower court’s ruling that the insurer has no duty to defend (Mary Spencer, et al. v. Hartford Casualty, et al., No. ED106337, Mo. App., Eastern Dist., 2018 Mo. App. LEXIS 1156)....

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