Insurance Company Calls COVID-19 a Pollutant, Lawsuit Claims
Insurance companies have a well-earned reputation for creativity when coming up with reasons to deny paying off policies. But one of the rationales used by the Cincinnati Insurance Company to reject a claim by Classy Glass, a Wisconsin-based company that operated the now-shuttered Denver Glass Academy, stands out. The firm's refusal to pay was based in part on defining COVID-19 as a "pollutant." "There was quite a bit of shock there," says Levi Kellogg, co-owner of Classy Glass, which has filed a lawsuit against the Cincinnati Insurance Company and two affiliates, the Cincinnati Casualty Com...
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