High Court Says Metropolitan Opera House Can't Get Coverage Under Contractor's CGL Policy

New York's highest court on Monday sorted out a long-running coverage dispute between a commercial general liability carrier and a contractor over whether it had to provide indemnity and a defense against a tort claim by a worker who had fallen from a ladder while working at the famed Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center Plaza. The case was Strauss Painting v. Mt. Hawley Insurance Co., No. 203. A majority of the court concluded that the Met had never been made an additional insured under the CGL policy that Mt. Hawley had issued to Strauss, and so the carrier owed no covera...