FC&S Legal has published “Does a General Contractor's Liability Insurer Have a Duty to Defend the Policyholder's Surety in a Liability Action? The United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of California Says 'No,'” by Joshua S. Leach, senior counsel at Clyde & Co US LLP, in its flagship publication, the Insurance Coverage Law Report.
The article explores the issue of what duty, if any, a liability insurer has to defend a policyholder's surety under the supplementary payments provisions when both the policyholder and surety are sued in the same construction defect action.
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