Another unreported Federal decision on Maryland’s First Party Bad Faith regime, §27-1001. This one involves a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, a clarification of a not-particularly-obscure point about §27-301 et seq. (the Unfair Claim Settlement Practices statute), and confirmation of a prior decision about aggregation. Not in that order. The citation is All Class Construction v. Mutual Benefit Insurance, 1:13-cv-03358-JKB (Bredar, J.) (February 26, 2014). (As

Maryland just handed down a duty-to-defend advertising-injury case, Maryland Casualty Company v. Blackstone International Ltd. (Md. 2015). CGL insurer does not need to defend a breach of contract claim where plaintiff seeks a share of the profit/equity in a joint venture and the allegedly stolen advertising ideas/work product was used to benefit that venture but the use of those ideas did not directly harm plaintiff. I hate it when people discuss a case’s facts and include ev