8th Circuit Reverses Ruling In Coverage Dispute Over Construction Site Accident

(December 8, 2023, 12:38 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s grant of partial summary judgment in favor of an engineer insured in an insurer’s lawsuit disputing coverage for an underlying $2.5 million construction worker injury settlement arising from a bridge deck collapse, finding that summary judgment is unavailable because coverage hangs on the resolution of a factual dispute over the insured’s role on the construction project....