Companies that lost business during the COVID-19 pandemic cannot turn to the “physical loss or damage” coverage provision of their insurance policies for financial relief, the Maryland Supreme Court ruled.

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Companies that lost business during the pandemic await a Maryland high court decision on whether their financial hit was insured as “physical damage."

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A Belcamp company denied insurance for lost business during the pandemic has lost its bid for a U.S. Supreme Court order.

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A Belcamp company denied insurance for lost business during the pandemic has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to order the federal court considering the business’s appeal to ask Maryland’s top court for its interpretation of the state’s insurance law before ...

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Motorists injured in a crash and denied underinsured motorist coverage by their own carrier have three years from the date of denial to sue their underwriter, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Monday. The Court of Appeals rejected an insurance company’s ...

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A Baltimore realtor’s alleged misrepresentation on an insurance application 20 years ago could leave it paying for some current, past and future legal expenses.

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A Cayman Islands-based insurance company that erroneously denied liability coverage could be on the hook for the nearly $3 million in settlement and legal-defense costs another insurer incurred in underwriting the expenses for a nurse accused of medical malpractice at Laurel Regional Hospital, a federal appeals court ruled this week.

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Attention corporate defendants: Failure to pay heed to internal processes and timely forward that civil complaint and summons to your insurance company can be very expensive.

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Two out-of-state insurance companies battled last week in the Baltimore federal courthouse over whether they must both contribute to the litigation defense of a Maryland engineering company whose subcontractor’s alleged negligence damaged pipes and caused harmful leakage at a building project in Anne Arundel County.

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A subcontractor’s insurance company must indemnify and defend a general contractor in a lawsuit — even though it was the contractor, not the plaintiff, who brought the subcontractor into the litigation, a federal appeals court has ruled in applying Maryland law.

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