Federal Judge Grants Commercial Insurer’s Motion To Dismiss Insured’s Counterclaim

( October 14, 2026, 12:14 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A federal judge in Florida granted a commercial insurer’s motion to dismiss an insured’s declaratory judgment counterclaim seeking coverage for the insured’s breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing counterclaims in an underlying lawsuit brought by a company to which the insured rented event space under a management agreement, holding that it would be unreasonable to infer that the insured’s counterclaims in the underlying action were necessary to its defense in that action....