11th Circuit: Insurer Owes No Defense, Indemnity For Negligent Home Inspection

Mealey's (April 20, 2017, 8:42 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A commercial general liability insurer had no duty to defend or indemnify a home inspector against allegations that an insufficient inspection failed to discover defective conditions prior to a home sale, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed April 17, finding that the inspector’s negligence did not cause any covered “property damage” (Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Ralph Gage Contracting Inc., et al., No. 16-15442, 11th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6528)....