( June 2, 2026, 1:20 PM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota appeals court panel held June 1 that there was a conflict of interest between a general contractor and a subcontractor’s commercial general liability insurer that transformed the insurer’s duty to defend into a duty to reimburse underlying attorney fees the contractor incurred in defending a negligence suit involving a fatal motorcycle crash, reversing the lower court’s finding that the insurer did not have to pay the fees of the general contractor’s independent counsel....