Lengthy Notice Delay Negated Coverage In Pond Repair Suit, Judge Rules

(June 30, 2021, 4:45 PM EDT) -- MACON, Ga. — An insured’s failure to offer “any reasonable excuse or justification” for a 15-month delay in informing its commercial general liability insurer about a lawsuit against it over a botched construction job constituted a failure to comply with its policy’s notice requirements, a Georgia federal judge ruled June 9, granting the insurer’s motion for summary judgment and declaring that it has no duty to indemnify nor defend the insured in an underlying lawsuit....