Professional Liability Endorsement Covers Entire Judgment, Panel Says In Reversal

(February 27, 2019, 2:24 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 26 found that a commercial general liability insurance policy’s Professional Liability Endorsement (PLE) covers an entire underlying $1.6 million judgment against a contractor insured, reversing a lower court in part (Mid-Continent Casualty Company v. Petroleum Solutions, Incorporated, No. 17-20652, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 5688)....