Justice: Insurer Has Duty To Defend Landlord Entities As Additional Insureds

(September 6, 2018, 1:12 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York justice on Aug. 15 found that a commercial tenant’s insurer has a duty to defend landlord entities as additional insureds against an underlying negligence lawsuit, further concluding that the issue of whether the insurer has a duty to indemnify them is premature (Zurich American Insurance Company, et al. v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Company, et al., No. 160188/2014, N.Y. Sup., New York Co., 2018 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 3611)....