Landlord’s Insurer Owes No Duty To Defend Personal Injury Suit, Panel Affirms

(June 8, 2020, 12:18 PM EDT) -- RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A California appeals panel on June 3 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a landlord’s commercial general liability insurer has no duty to defend against an underlying personal injury lawsuit because the landlord had not paid the required $250,000 self-insured retention and its policy was excess to a tenant’s CGL policy pursuant to the “other insurance” clause (State Farm General Insurance Company v. Columbia Casualty Company, No. E072918, Calif. App., 4th Dist., Div. 2, 2020 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 3475)....