7th Circuit Overturns Ruling Finding Insurer Had No Duty To Defend Valve Installer

(December 30, 2020, 1:33 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 22 overturned a ruling granting an insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in a declaratory judgment lawsuit against the installer of valves that were defective, holding that the judge erred when cherry picking facts that were in documents the judge refused to admit to the record to support the decision to grant the motion (Federated Mutual Insurance Co. v. Coyle Mechanical Supply Inc., No. 20-1207, 7th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 40087)....