Alabama Federal Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss Insurer’s Duty To Defend Suit

Mealey's (June 28, 2021, 2:35 PM EDT) -- MOBILE, Ala. — Declining to adopt a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation of abstention, a federal judge in Alabama on June 1 denied a contractor’s motion to dismiss an insurer’s suit seeking a declaration that it has no duty to defend or indemnify the contractor in a state court case alleging defective deck work at a conference center; the state case is not parallel but related to the instant federal case, the judge found....