Allstate Insurance Co. v. Victor Ginsberg

This case comes to us from a declaratory decree action in the federal court in which the central issue involves Allstate’s duty to defend its insured, Victor Ginsberg, in Elaine Scarfo’s state court invasion of privacy action against him. Allstate’s policy explicitly provides coverage to Ginsberg for claims of “invasion of rights of privacy.” Hence, the initial coverage issue appears to turn on whether Scarfo’s allegations state a cause of action for invasion of privacy under Florida law.4 I would hold that a cause of action has been properly alleged, and I concur only in the majority’s…