Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies: Personal and Advertising Injury Coverage (Coverage B) | Practical Law

Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies: Personal and Advertising Injury Coverage (Coverage B) | Practical Law

This Note discusses personal and advertising injury coverage (Coverage B) under commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies. It includes a discussion of the types of offenses that fall within the scope of coverage, including malicious prosecution, publications violating a person's right of privacy, use of another's advertising idea in your advertisement, and infringement of another's copyright, trade dress or slogan in your advertisement; the requisite link between the covered offense and advertising activities; and the scope of certain key exclusions, such as the knowing violation exclusion, material published without knowledge of falsity exclusion, prior publication exclusion, intellectual property right exclusion, and CAN-SPAM Act violations exclusion.

Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies: Personal and Advertising Injury Coverage (Coverage B)

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This Note discusses personal and advertising injury coverage (Coverage B) under commercial general liability (CGL) insurance policies. It includes a discussion of the types of offenses that fall within the scope of coverage, including malicious prosecution, publications violating a person's right of privacy, use of another's advertising idea in your advertisement, and infringement of another's copyright, trade dress or slogan in your advertisement; the requisite link between the covered offense and advertising activities; and the scope of certain key exclusions, such as the knowing violation exclusion, material published without knowledge of falsity exclusion, prior publication exclusion, intellectual property right exclusion, and CAN-SPAM Act violations exclusion.