Insurer’s Duty to Defend Construed Broadly in Favor of Insured
WTC Captive Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 549 F. Supp. 2d 555 (S.D.N.Y. 2008)
After the World Trade Center disaster in September 2001, the City of New York created a captive insurance company, funded by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to insure the costs of lawsuits arising from the WTC clean-up efforts. Liberty Mutual was the primary insurer and had agreed to defend and indemnify the city against claims including, but not limited to, bodily and personal injury. A group of secondary insurers agreed to provide the same coverage if the Liberty Mutual policy became exhausted. All of the policies were retroactive to September 11, 2001. Read More