A US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. has overturned a decision from February 2016, which ruled insurers Allied World Assurance, Colony Insurance and Crum & Foster Specialty Insurance were not obliged to defend nor indemnify a policyholder in a trademark infringement case involving former joint venture partners Repar and Willowood. The original hearing centred on the continued use of of the name of a brand of pesticide and was settled for $453,625.
A US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has overturned a decision from February 2016, which ruled insurers Allied World Assurance, Colony Insurance and Crum & Foster Specialty Insurance were not obliged to defend nor indemnify a policyholder in a trademark infringement case involving former joint venture partners Repar and Willowood. The original hearing centred on the continued use of of the name of a brand of pesticide and was settled for $453,625.