Penzer, Michael, etc. vs. Transportation Insurance Company

Year: 2007
Court: Florida Supreme Court
Case Number: SC08-2068, Lower Court Case No.: 07-13827-FF

Insurance companies have a duty to defend violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) under a CGL policy’s “advertising injury” clause even when the facsimile transmission does not disseminate private information. Despite the absence of private information, an unsolicited facsimile arguably can still constitute an unwarranted intrusion and violation of one’s right to privacy and activate the insurer’s defense obligation.

UP’s brief was written pro bono by Eugene R. Anderson, Esq., William G. Passannante, Esq. and Jane A. Horne, Esq. of Anderson, Kill and Olick, PC. R. Hugh Lumpkin, Esq. and Michael F. Huber, Esq. of the Florida firm of VerPloeg & Lumpkin (also UP sponsors

 

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Source: https://uphelp.org/amicus-briefs/penzer-michael-etc-vs-transportation-insurance-company/
Date: April 20, 2024