Michael Taylor Designs, Inc. v. Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America

ORDER RE CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

RICHARD SEEBORG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is an insurance coverage dispute. Plaintiff Michael Taylor Designs, Inc. (“MTD”), a furniture retailer, was sued in an underlying action for allegedly infringing the trade dress of one of its former suppliers by offering “cheap synthetic knockoffs” of that supplier’s wicker furniture products. Defendant Travelers Property Casualty Company declined to defend MTD under a commercial liability policy it had issued, until after the complaint in the underlying action was amended to allege expressly a…