Panel Reverses Judgment On ‘Claim Not Pled’ In Insurance Policy Cancellation Row

(April 24, 2024, 3:06 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A Florida appellate court reversed and remanded a lower court’s grant of summary judgment for alleged misrepresentation in a policy application in a suit filed by an insured’s assignee against a now-insolvent insurer, seeking a declaration that the insurer had improperly canceled its insured’s policy, finding that the lower court erred in granting the assignee’s motion for summary judgment on a “claim it never pled.”...