A Pennsylvania construction company's insurance claim for flood damage to its equipment should have been barred by an exclusion that the company agreed to, but had been accidentally left out of the final copy of its policy, the insurer told a federal court.
In G&G Oil Co. of Indiana, Inc. v. Continental Western Insurance Co., the Indiana Supreme Court confirmed that silent cyber; insurance industry’s term for circumstances when losses due to cyberattacks are covered by policies not marketed as cyberinsurance – extends to losses due to ransomware.
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A Connecticut federal judge has freed an insurance unit of The Hartford from having to pay for a New York hospitality group's pandemic-related losses, holding that the group's losses from government closure orders do not trigger the policy's civil authority coverage.
Policyholders Digging for ISO Documents to Support COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims
Plaintiff’s attorneys are looking deep into the weeds for evidence to support claims for business income lost because of COVID-19 public safety orders.
Lawyers for footwear wholesaler Marc Fisher LLC and its affiliates are asking a Connecticut state court to order the Insurance Service Office to produce documents relating to its 2006 regulatory filing that created a standard-form virus exclusion. A Tampa-based policyholder attorney known for his frequent blogs and webcasts has filed similar requests and he is urging other plaintiffs attorneys to subpoena ISO as well.
“We cannot allow insurance defense attorneys to argue out of coverage that their clients’ own internal manuals and documents show exist,” Chip Merlin wrote in a May 19 post on his Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog.