First Specialty Insurance v. Pilgrim Insurance

The instant case involves a dispute between a general liability insurer, First Specialty Insurance Corporation (FSIC), and an automobile insurer, Pilgrim Insurance Company (Pilgrim), regarding the scope of an automobile exclusion in a commercial general liability insurance policy (CGL policy). By its express terms, this “exclusion applies even if the claims against any insured allege negligence ... in the supervision]:] [or] hiring[] ... of others by that insured, if the ‘occurrence’ which caused the ‘bodily injury’. . . involved the . . . use . . . of any . . . ‘auto’. . . owned or operated…