Legal Opinion
American Guarantee & Liability Insurance v. Timothy S. Keiter, P.A.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 26, 2004No. 03-2060PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
A legal malpractice insurer sought a declaratory judgment in federal district court that, pursuant to a “business enterprise” exclusion in a lawyer’s professional liability insurance policy, it has neither a duty to defend nor a duty to indemnify the insured lawyer, Timothy Keiter, in an underlying state court suit alleging legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty. The district court denied the insurer’s summary judgment motion. It found a duty to defend under Maine law and held that consideration of the duty to indemnify was premature. The insurer appealed on the…
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