Uncertified Lumber Claims Fail To Allege ‘Occurrence’ Under Policy, Panel Affirms

(March 3, 2020, 9:11 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 27 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that a general liability insurer has no duty to defend its commercial building distributor insured against three underlying lawsuits, finding that the alleged damage “was the natural and ordinary result” of the insured’s “deliberate decision to supply, and conceal that it had supplied, uncertified lumber” (Lexington Insurance Company v. Chicago Flameproof & Wood Specialties Corporation, No. 19-1062, 7th Cir.,  2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 6006)....