( July 2, 2025, 1:18 PM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — Several homeowners appealed a federal judge in Washington’s dismissal of an insurance coverage suit they filed, as assignees of a developer, alleging that a general liability insurer breached its duty to defend and indemnify the developer for claims arising from the developer’s defective construction of the homeowners’ houses. The judge had agreed with a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that a tract housing exclusion precluded coverage....