{"id":194,"date":"2013-05-15T15:09:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:41","slug":"legal-malpractice-insurer-had-no-duty-to-defend-law-firm-based-on-business-enterprise-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/legal-malpractice-insurer-had-no-duty-to-defend-law-firm-based-on-business-enterprise-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal malpractice insurer had no duty to defend law firm based on business enterprise exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher J. Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph P. Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=8109418734284316731&amp;hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;as_sdt=2,14&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt\">American Zurich Ins. Co. v. Wilcox and Christopoulus, LLC, et al, Case No. 1-12-0402 (Ill. App. Ct. 1st Dist. Jan. 17, 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insurer filed suit against insured lawyer and law firm seeking a declaration of no duty to defend. Trial court found no duty to defend lawyer but found a duty to defend the law firm.  On appeal, insurer claims it has no duty to defend the law firm because of its \u201cbusiness enterprise\u201d exclusion which provides that there\u2019s no coverage for any claim arising out of \u201cthe alleged acts or omissions of any insured * * * for a business enterprise * * * in which any insured has a controlling interest.\u201d  Appellate court noted that the underlying complaint against the lawyer and the law firm for civil conspiracy involved allegations of the lawyer\u2019s acts for a business enterprise in which the lawyer had a controlling interest.  Appellate court found no duty to defend the law firm because the exclusion above precluded coverage for the law firm because the exclusion applied to all insureds based on the conduct of \u201cany\u201d one insured.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher J. Graham and Joseph P. Kelly American Zurich Ins. Co. v. Wilcox and Christopoulus, LLC, et al, Case No. 1-12-0402 (Ill. App. Ct. 1st Dist. Jan. 17, 2013) Insurer filed suit against insured lawyer and law firm seeking a declaration of no duty to defend. Trial court found no duty to defend lawyer [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}