Flori v. Allstate Insurance

In this Superior Court civil action a judgment was entered declaring that the defendant Allstate Insurance Company was obligated under its comprehensive general liability insurance policy to defend a tort action brought by John and Judith Mendes and Helen Vanasse against its insured, the plaintiff, Peter Flori. Allstate appealed.

In the late fall of 1974, Delmer R. Levesque, a general contractor, agreed with the Mendes, who owned and occupied a residential building in Coventry, to renovate a three-room, downstairs area of the Mendes’ dwelling for occupancy by Mrs. Mendes’ mother, Mrs. Vanasse.…