Panel:  Subcontractor’s Contribution Liability To Contractor Barred From Coverage

(June 29, 2021, 10:45 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 28 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling in favor of an insurer in its lawsuit seeking a declaration that its workers’ compensation and employers liability insurance policy obligated it to pay nothing more for a construction site injury than the amounts that the Illinois workers’ compensation law required its subcontractor insured to pay its injured employees, finding that the insured’s liability in contribution to the contractor was specifically excluded from the coverage....

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