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A virus exclusion in a Liberty Mutual unit's policy bars coverage of a New Jersey wedding venue's losses during the pandemic, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, finding that COVID-19, not government orders, mainly caused the losses.
Atlantic Specialty Insurance Co. told an Illinois federal court it shouldn't have to defend a pharmaceutical returns company accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act with its fingerprint timekeeping system, citing several policy exclusions.
An Arizona federal judge dismissed a COVID-19 coverage lawsuit from the owner of steakhouses and restaurants in Arizona, Illinois and Texas, finding that the loss of use of its buildings did not amount to a "direct physical loss or damage" that would qualify it for coverage from Allianz and Axa units.
The organizers behind the annual South by Southwest festival are suing a Chubb unit, arguing that it is required to defend and indemnify them in a recently settled class action by customers seeking refunds for last year's event, scrubbed for the pandemic.
Three insurers told a New York federal judge that an exclusion for unfair trade practices should prevent them from having to defend digitally driven insurer Lemonade against five potential class actions accusing it of improperly collecting biometric data.