California Panel: Insurers Owe No Defense For Suit Filed Against Property Developer

Mealey's (June 27, 2019, 2:13 PM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — A California appeals panel on June 26 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that three insurers have no duty to defend against an underlying lawsuit alleging that their property developer insured made false representations about the property to the buyer, finding that there was no unexpected and unintended event between the insured’s intentional construction of a portion of property improvements and the encroachment onto an adjacent property (Majid Mortazavi, et al., v. Federal Insurance Company, et al., No. D072923, Calif. App., 4th Dist., Div. 1, 2019 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4320)....