Attorney: Misclassification Of Insurer Client Was ‘Embarrassing Mistake,’ Not Fraud

( October 14, 2026, 9:30 AM EDT) -- RALEIGH, N.C. — An attorney told a North Carolina federal court that he did not properly verify his homeowners insurer client’s corporate status and citizenship before filing the insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend and indemnify in an underlying action accusing an unemancipated minor of going on a shooting rampage that killed several people in a Raleigh neighborhood, asserting in a reply brief in support of a motion for voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit without prejudice that he did not intend to deceive the court....