After Hours: New Jersey Superior Court Holds Definition of Employee and Exclusion for Employee’s Criminal Acts Both to be Unambiguous

In Union Hill Supremo Pharmacy v. Franklin Mut. Ins. Co., No. L-705-13 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div., March 4, 2015) the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division decided that an insurance policy’s definition of “employee” was unambiguous. The court further held that a part-time employee fell within the definition of “employee” and that a policy exclusion based on an “employee’s” criminal acts applied even when the employee was not working at the time of the crime’s commission.

The insured, a pharmacy, incurred a …

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