United States Second Circuit

Under Connecticut law, the "advertising injury" provision of liability insurance policy obligated insurer to defend a claim that its insured infringed a competitor's trade dress and included the allegedly infringing trade dress in published advertisements.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/12/2001
• Decided 04/18/2002
• Published 04/18/2002

Judges

• JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge., Before WALKER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and KEARSE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Frank S. Occhipinti, Stewart, Occhipinti & Makow, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Colin Gunn, Gunn, Godfrey & Allison, Westport, Conn., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard J. Kenny, Rome McGuigan Sabanosh, P.C., Hartford, Conn. (William W. Kaliff, Hartford, Conn., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee.