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PACIFIC RIM MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS, INC. v. AON RISK INS. SERVICES WEST, INC.

No. D058321.

203 Cal.App.4th 1278 (2012)

138 Cal. Rptr. 3d 294

PACIFIC RIM MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS, INC., Cross-complainant and Appellant, v. AON RISK INSURANCE SERVICES WEST, INC., et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

February 28, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Solomon, Ward, Seidenwurm & Smith, Richard E. McCarthy , Thomas F. Landers and Heather N. Stone for Cross-complainant and Appellant.

King & Spalding, Paul R. Johnson , Geoffrey M. Ezgar and Leo Spooner III for Cross-defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

NARES, J.—

In this case we are presented with an issue of first impression in California: Does an insurance broker, after procuring a policy of insurance for a developer on a construction project, owe a duty to apprise a subcontractor that was later added as an insured under that policy of the insurance company's subsequent insolvency? We conclude that, absent the assumption of a contractual duty to do so, insurance brokers owe...

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