Associated Industries Insurance Company, Inc. v. Wachtel Missry LLP

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Case Number:

23-57

Court:

Appellate - 2nd Circuit

Nature of Suit:

4110 CONTRACT-Insurance

Sectors & Industries:

  1. December 07, 2023

    2nd Circ. Affirms No Coverage Ruling For Legal Insurer

    A Second Circuit panel ruled Thursday that an insurer need not cover a legal malpractice suit brought against an attorney and his former firm, rejecting the attorney's argument that some acts the underlying suit alleged circumvented the policy's exclusions.

  2. November 20, 2023

    2nd Circ. Asks How Far Duty To Defend Goes In Land Dispute

    A Second Circuit panel on Monday questioned the extent to which an underlying complaint's factual background fell within an exclusion barring coverage for the complaint's central allegations, in a dispute over claims by an ailing Florida landowner that his own attorney improperly served as his counterparty in a $12 million land deal.

  3. July 19, 2023

    2nd Circ. Should Uphold Malpractice Exemption, Insurer Says

    A legal insurer has urged the Second Circuit to stand by a U.S. district judge's ruling last year that the company had no duty to defend a legal malpractice claim brought against a New York attorney accused of inducing an elderly client into a bad real estate deal.