6th Circuit Affirms, Reverses Duty-To-Defend Rulings For Contractor’s Insurers

( April 22, 2025, 2:51 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a professional liability insurer had no duty to defend its contractor insured in a hospital’s suit against the contractor’s performance bond carrier but reversed the trial court’s ruling in favor of the contractor’s commercial general liability insurer, finding that alleged damages to a preexisting building caused by the contractor’s work “are the type of damages that ‘potentially, possibly or might’ be covered” by the policy and that the insurer’s duty to defend was not limited to suits asserting claims directly against the contractor....