Magistrate Recommends Denying Insurer’s Dismissal Bid, Says It Has ‘Chutzpah’

(April 3, 2024, 2:45 PM EDT) -- DENVER — A Colorado federal magistrate judge on April 2 issued a report and recommendation advising the court to deny a general liability insurer’s dismissal motion in an excess insurer’s suit against the liability insurer and the insured seeking a declaration that the excess policy is void ab initio due to fraud, finding that the liability insurer should have known that it would become a defendant in the suit and that to claim otherwise “borders on the definition of chutzpah.”...