Hameid v. National Fire Insurance of Hartford

Opinion

CHIN, J.

We granted review to determine a limited issue: When a plaintiff alleges in an underlying complaint that an insured defendant took a competitor’s customer list and solicited customers from it, was the defendant’s act a misappropriation of advertising ideas that gave rise to the insurer’s duty to defend defendant under the “advertising injury” provision of the commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policy? (On May 15, 2002, we filed the order specifically limiting the issue on review to coverage under the advertising injury provision.) We conclude the term “advertising…