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 court said the companies had failed to show that they would suffer any financial loss if their customers did not use the names or logos associated with the companies.
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.