Showing posts with label insurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insurance. Show all posts
Monday, December 01, 2025

"unfair competition" CGL insurance exclusion applies only to competitor claims, not consumer claims

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Athena Cosmetics, Inc. v. Great American E&S Ins. Co.,   2025 WL 3304392, No. 2:24-cv-08010-AH-AGRx (C.D. Cal. Nov. 24, 2025) Three un...
Friday, July 25, 2025

court finds advertising injury insurance coverage in false association case despite consumer fraud and other exclusions

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Illinois Casualty Co. v. Kladek, Inc., No. 22-3214 (DWF/DJF), 2025 WL 2071043 (D. Minn. Jul. 23, 2025) ICC sought declaratory judgment tha...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

GIs can be indications of quality for purposes of applying failure-to-conform exclusion to advertising injury insurance policy

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Allied World Nat’l Assur. Co. v. NHC, Inc., 2025 WL 1852789, No. 22-00469 MWJS-WRP (D. Haw. Jul. 3, 2025) Nice to see good old-fashioned l...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

adult venue's insurer did not successfully exclude ads from ad injury coverage

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Princeton Excess & Surplus Lines Ins. Co. v. R.I. Cranston Entertainment Inc.; 2024 WL 1285631, C.A. No. 21-63-JJM-PAS (D.R.I. Mar. 26, ...
Wednesday, July 19, 2023

no duty to defend despite allegations of label copying; but insurers can't recoup defense costs already spent

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Continental Casualty Company v. Winder Laboratories, LLC, --- F.4th ----, 2023 WL 4504183, No. 21-11758 (11th Cir. Jul. 13, 2023) Winder, ...
Monday, June 26, 2023

Advertising injury policy's IP exclusion means ROP claims aren't covered

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Covington Specialty Insurance Company v. Omega Restaurant & Bar, LLC, --- F.Supp.3d ----, 2023 WL 2720805, No. 2:21-cv-247 (E.D. Va. Mar...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Illinois court finds insurance coverage for alleged trade dress infringement

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State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Advanced Inventory Management, Inc., No. 1-22-0662, 2022 IL App (1st) 220662-U (Ill. Ct. App. Dec. 15, 202...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

"unfair trade practices" insurance exclusion covers antitrust, not consumer protection

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G-New, Inc. DBA Godiva Chocolatier, Inc. v. Endurance Am. Ins. Co., C.A. No. N21C-10-100 MMJ CCLD, 2022 WL 4128608 (Del. Super. Ct. Sept. 12...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Advertising injury coverage may exist even when gravamen of underlying complaint is TM

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Vitamin Energy, LLC v. Evanston Ins. Co., -- F.4 th ---, 2022 WL 39839, No. 20-3461 (3d Cir. Jan. 5, 2022) The court finds that, contrary...
Tuesday, October 05, 2021

"advertising injury" insurance exclusion doesn't exclude false advertising claims

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Luxottica, Inc. v. Allianz Global Risks US Ins. Co., 2021 WL 4226197, No. 1:20-cv-698 (S.D. Ohio Jul. 28, 2021) Mostly this case is about ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

CA prohibition of insurance coverage for certain consumer protection cases is constitutional

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Adir Int’l, LLC v. Starr Indemnity & Liability Co., 994 F.3d 1032 (9 th Cir. Apr. 15, 2021) California’s AG sued Adir for violating s...
Monday, August 09, 2021

3 things that all mean the same thing: a slogan isn't a TM for ad injury insurance purposes

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Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Luna Gourmet Coffee & Tea Co., 2021 WL 1293314, No. 19-cv-02039-RM-NYW (D. Colo. Apr. 7, 2021) The underlyi...
Tuesday, January 12, 2021

American Merck and German Merck's TM battle doesn't involve covered "advertising injury"

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EMD Millipore Corp. v. HDI-Gerling Am. Ins. Co., 2021 WL 66441, No. 20-cv-10244-ADB (D. Mass. Jan. 7, 2021) Is trademark infringement (or ...
Wednesday, December 09, 2020

advertising injury insurance covers false advertising/patent case despite exclusions

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In re Indian Harbor Ins. Co. v. SharkNinja Operating LLC, No. N20C-02-014 PRW CCLD (Del. Super. Ct. Nov. 19, 2020) Indian Harbor provided ...
Monday, September 14, 2020

insurer must defend Expedia because its false advertising exclusion didn't cover false claims about hotels

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National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Expedia, Inc., 2020 WL 5369261, No. C19-0896RSL (W.D. Wash. Sept. 8, 2020) While receiving bad news in the...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Ordinary false advertising isn't disparagement for insurance purposes

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Vitamin Health, Inc. v. Hartford Casualty Ins. Co., --- Fed.Appx. ----, 2017 WL 1325263, No. 16-1724  (6 th Cir. Apr. 11, 2017) Vitam...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Trademark infringement on hang tags is covered advertising injury

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E.S.Y., Inc. v. Scottsdale Ins. Co., 2015 WL 6164666, No. 15–21349–CIV (S.D. Fla. Oct. 14, 2015) Scottsdale insured ESY under a commerc...