Legal Opinion
Harleysville Mutual Insurance v. Buzz Off Insect Shield, L.L.C.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided April 15, 2010No. 272A08PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWBY, Justice.
This case arose out of a dispute between competing producers of insect repellents. Defendants Buzz Off Insect Shield, L.L.C. (“BOIS”) and International Garment Technologies, L.L.C. (“IGT”) allegedly falsely advertised the attributes of their insect-repellent clothing. S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (“SCJ”), defendants’ competitor, believed that it was being injured by these advertisements. As a result, SCJ sued BOIS and IGT in federal court to compensate for this injury. The question currently before this Court is whether IGT’s commercial general liability (“CGL”) insurance carriers…
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