N.J. Panel Affirms Judgment For Insurer In Fire Coverage Dispute With Homeowners

( November 4, 2025, 11:29 AM EST) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey appellate court affirmed a lower court’s ruling granting summary judgment to an insurer in homeowners’ breach of contract and bad faith suit over the insurer’s purported failure to cover fire damage, ruling that the lower court did not err in finding that policy rescission was appropriate because the homeowners did not comply with the policy provision requiring that they “customarily occupy” the insured premises....