Panel: Insurer Has No Duty To Pay Legal Fees For Insured’s General Counsel

Mealey's (June 28, 2018, 1:33 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California appeals panel on June 26 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that an insurer has no duty to pay $106,102.63 in legal fees that were purportedly incurred by the insured’s general counsel in defending a lawsuit arising from the sexual abuse of a foreign exchange student (Pacific Intercultural Exchange v. Scottsdale Insurance Company, No. D071478, Calif. App., 4th Dist., Div. 1, 2018 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4319)....