In an opinion released on February 5, 2008, the Connecticut Supreme Court affirmed the entry of summary judgment in favor of the Universal Underwriters Insurance Company. Universal Underwriters Ins. Co. v. Paradis, Docket Nos. SC 17756, 17757, slip. op. (Conn. 2008). The opinion is a favorable result for the insurance industry. Universal had commenced a […]

H & S’s Insurance Coverage Group successfully tried a declaratory judgment action on behalf of National Grange and then successfully defended that judgment on appeal to the Connecticut Supreme Court. As the underlying tort claim was a death action, National Grange’s $1,000,000 liability limits were clearly at risk. On appeal, the Supreme Court considered two […]

In Travelers Property Casualty Company of America v. Continental Casualty Company, 2010 Conn. Super. LEXIS 1169 (Conn. Super. Ct. May 27, 2010) (Cosgrove, J.), Halloran & Sage’s Insurance Coverage Group successfully obtained summary judgment in a declaratory judgment action involving an insurance coverage dispute arising from a slip-and-fall at a construction site. In the underlying […]

Halloran & Sage obtained a pair of favorable summary judgment rulings in Federal Court barring coverage under homeowners’ policies on the basis that the conduct alleged in the underlying complaint was essentially intentional tortious conduct and did not constitute an occurrence under the defendant/insured’s policy. On this basis, the courts ruled that the insured was […]

Halloran & Sage is pleased to sponsor the Connecticut Bar Association Young Lawyers Section’s upcoming Diversity Town Hall: “Navigating Race and the Constitutional Rights of Students and the Media at American Universities.” Matthew Necci, Chair of the Firm’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group, is also Chair of the YLS. The free program—to be held on February […]

In Mervin Harris v. Hermitage Insurance Company, 2009 Conn. Super. LEXIS 2723 (Conn. Super. Ct., J.D. of Hartford at Hartford, October 13, 2009), the Connecticut Superior Court (Aurigemma, J.) held that the defendant-insurer did not owe a duty to defend or indemnify its insured, D&S Entertainment d/b/a The Bar with No Name ("D&S"), under a […]

A common strategy of declaratory judgment defendants is to move to dismiss and/or stay an insurer's declaratory judgment action on the ground that the insurance coverage issues are more appropriately resolved in the underlying action.  Halloran & Sage successfully defended such a motion in the case of Mount Vernon Fire Ins. Co. v. Linarte, et […]

The Connecticut Superior Court, Dooley, J., granted a motion to strike an insured’s bad faith claim in Trans-Clean Corp. v. Evanston Ins. Co., et al., No. FBT-CV-09-4028802 (Sept. 23, 2010).  In its complaint, the insured alleged that State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company violated the duty of good faith and fair dealing by denying coverage […]

In Acmat v. Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company, a decision officially released on May 29, 2007, the Connecticut Supreme Court held that policyholders may only recover attorney’s fees in coverage litigation where the insured proves a claim of common-law or statutory bad faith. Up until now, most insureds had been asserting claims for attorney’s […]

In Royal Indemnity Company, et al. v. Pendleton King, et al., No. 3:03cv2178, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72654 (D. Conn. Sept. 28, 2007), the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Underhill, J.) held that the defendant insurers did not owe a duty to defend or to indemnify their insureds, Pendleton King, Daphne […]