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An appellate court in California, reversing a trial court’s decision, has ruled that an insurer owed a defense to a general contractor as an additional insured under a subcontractor’s commercial general liability (“CGL”) insurance policy, rejecting the insurer’s efforts to deny coverage based on an exclusion for damage to property in the “care, custody or control” of the additional insured.
