Sterngold Dental, LLC v. HDI Global Insurance Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
*5 This appeal gives us an opportunity to sink our teeth into a sophisticated insurance coverage question: we must construe the scope of the so-called intellectual property exclusion (IP exclusion) to the personal and advertising injury coverage under a standard commercial general liability policy (the Policy) issued by defendant-appellee HDI Global Insurance Company (HDI) to plaintiff-appellant Sterngold Dental, LLC (Sterngold). Concluding, as we do, that Sterngold's arguments lack bite, we affirm the district court's dismissal of Sterngold's action for failure to state a…
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