January 12, 2024
A Dallas apartment complex's insurers wrongly denied coverage for a 2020 fire by maintaining the complex's use of smoke detectors without a central fire alarm system had violated its policy's safety requirements, the Fifth Circuit ruled, finding the policy's reference to different types of fire alarms contradictory.
November 08, 2023
The Fifth Circuit questioned if smoke detectors qualify as a fire alarm system during oral arguments Wednesday in an insurance dispute over whether a Dallas apartment complex complied with its policy's protective safeguard requirements to get coverage for an April 2020 fire.
May 03, 2023
An apartment complex owner asked the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday to overturn a Texas federal court's ruling that it was not covered for losses resulting from a fire, arguing that ambiguity in its policy's protective safeguards endorsement made it inapplicable.