The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a California event operator’s lawsuit against its insurer over COVID-19 coverage. The dismissal followed a May ruling by the California Supreme Court, which found that COVID-19 does not cause the type of property damage required for insurance coverage to be triggered. As a result, the Ninth Circuit agreed …
McKesson Corp. recently faced a setback in its legal battle related to the opioid crisis as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld a district court’s ruling that insurers AIG’s Nation Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh and Chubb’s ACE Property and Casualty Insurance Co. were not obligated to cover defense costs. …
Natural disasters have been shaping California homeowner’s insurance for decades. After the 1906 quake in San Francisco the city installed a gravity fed city wide fire suppression system as a way to coax carriers back into the city after a majority of the city had burned to the ground and firefighters stood helpless as the …
Last December, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted amendments to the Model Act. If enacted by individual states, these amendments will result in significant changes to anti-rebating laws that were first established in 1887. Here’s what brokers and insurers need to know moving forward. [Read full article at CIWA.net]
There were potentially thousands of insurance policies taken out on the steel boxes stacked high on the massive boat blocking the Suez Canal and upending world trade. They could result in millions of dollars in payouts, but from whom? Claims will be made from everyone affected, from those in the shipping industry to those in …
Attempts to circumvent insurance policy virus exclusions are being repeatedly rejected by the Courts. Recently, a Fresno based European Wax Center was forced to lay off 30 employees as a result of the state-mandated closures. The salon made business interruption claims against its insurer, Sentinel Insurance Company, which were denied since the salon could not …
Two days after the cancellation of the 2020 Minor League Baseball season due to the coronavirus pandemic, 22 teams filed lawsuits against insurance companies over rejections of business interruption claims. The insurers claim that business interruption coverage due to a virus outbreak has been excluded from standard policies, such as these, for quite some time …
Businesses throughout the nation are struggling to survive in the new environment of closures, social distancing and lock-downs. The loss of income is catastrophic to the business owners and employees alike. One potential source of funds is through business insurance, a source probably never intended for the claims now being made. The American Property Casualty …
A series of class action lawsuits have been initiated against certain insurers who have denied business interruption claims filed by their insureds. In each case, the businesses – which include bakeries, taverns, restaurants, nightclubs and bridal retailers – allege they paid premiums to the insurance companies for business interruption insurance for situations where they could …
The COVID-19 pandemic and “Stay at Home” orders issued in response have had an immediate and significant impact on the activities of California businesses and individual policyholders. As a result, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has noted that “projected loss exposures of many insurance policies have become overstated or misclassified” and has ordered premium reductions …