{"id":5044,"date":"2026-07-19T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/travelers-sues-to-recover-defense-costs-it-says-it-never-owed\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T15:57:13","slug":"travelers-sues-to-recover-defense-costs-it-says-it-never-owed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/travelers-sues-to-recover-defense-costs-it-says-it-never-owed\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers sues to recover defense costs it says it never owed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p paraeid=\"{c3ddb5c3-a970-449e-b6ad-a969525404fd}{142}\" paraid=\"1737150990\">Travelers also\u00a0says\u00a0others should have carried this. It calls Zurich, Skanska&#8217;s direct primary carrier, the party that owed the defense first, pointing to an Other Insurance clause making Travelers&#8217; coverage &#8220;excess over any other primary insurance available to Skanska as a named insured.&#8221; And it accuses Starr, which insured subcontractor Select Electric, of a wrongful denial &#8211; saying that after &#8220;years of non-response,&#8221; Starr rejected the tender on the view there was &#8220;no evidence&#8221; Select Electric touched the ditch, while ignoring the subcontractor&#8217;s own discovery responses, an incident report, and a &#8220;$450,000 settlement&#8221; with the injured worker. Starr&#8217;s policy, Travelers notes, reaches liability merely &#8220;arising out of&#8221; Select Electric&#8217;s operations &#8211; a broader standard than its own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelers also\u00a0says\u00a0others should have carried this. It calls Zurich, Skanska&#8217;s direct primary carrier, the party that owed the defense first, pointing to an Other Insurance clause making Travelers&#8217; coverage &#8220;excess over any other primary insurance available to Skanska as a named insured.&#8221; And it accuses Starr, which insured subcontractor Select Electric, of a wrongful denial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[281,1334,4089,2946,1258,1259],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-costs","tag-defense","tag-owed","tag-recover","tag-sues","tag-travelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}