The insurers representing an insurance broker and its employee who were hit with a $30 million copyright infringement judgment over protected documents copied from a rival broker do not have to pick up the legal costs, the state Superior Court has ruled, because the underlying conduct did not amount to an “advertising injury.”
The unanimous three-judge panel’s decision clears a group of 17 insurers from defending and indemnifying USI MidAtlantic Inc. and Thomas P. Haughey, after Haughey was found to have copied language from a brokerage where he used to work.
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