Insurer Owes Additional Insured Defense Of Negligence Suit Arising From Fatal Fall

(March 19, 2019, 7:48 AM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — An Illinois appeals court on March 15 affirmed a lower court’s finding that an electrical subcontractor’s insurer has a duty to defend a general contractor against an underlying lawsuit arising from an electrician’s fatal fall at a project site, finding that the general contractor is vicariously liable for torts that the electrical subcontractor committed in the scope of it being the general contractor’s agent (Pekin Insurance Company v. Twin Shores Management, LLC, et al., No. 18-0513, Ill. App., 4th Dist., 2019 Ill. App. Unpub. LEXIS 431)....