Contractual Liability Exclusion Does Not Bar Coverage, Arizona High Court Affirms

(June 18, 2018, 12:03 PM EDT) -- PHOENIX— The Arizona Supreme Court on June 14 found that a homeowners insurance policy’s “contractual liability” exclusion does relieve an insurer of its duty to defend its builder-vendor insured against an underlying negligent excavation claim arising from rockslide damage, finding that the negligence allegation arises from the common-law duty to construct a home as a reasonable builder would (Dennis E. Teufel v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company, et al., No. CV-17-0190-PR, Ariz. Sup., 2018 Ariz. LEXIS 187)....