Insurer Owed Defense To Subcontractor For Faulty Fire Suppression Installations

Mealey's (March 29, 2022, 12:43 PM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — An insurer had a duty to defend a subcontractor named in an underlying suit alleging that the subcontractor negligently installed fire suppression systems in a condominium building because the insured’s work falls under the covered operations of the policy’s errors and omissions endorsement and because the endorsement is ambiguous when read in conjunction with the policy’s impaired property exclusion, a Maryland federal judge said March 21 in granting the insured’s motion for partial summary judgment....