Panel:  Triable Issues Of Fact Exist As To Whether Broker Undertook Special Duty

(September 15, 2020, 12:52 PM EDT) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California appeals panel on Sept. 11 held that an insured raised triable issues of fact regarding whether an insurance broker "undertook a special duty by holding itself out as having expertise in inland marine insurance" and that the insured reasonably relied on the broker's expertise, reversing and remanding a lower court's ruling in favor of the broker in a breach of contract and negligence lawsuit (David Murray v. UPS Capital Insurance Agency, Inc., No. G058353, Calif. App., 4th Dist., Div. 3, 2020 Cal. App. LEXIS 866)....