Judge: Insurer Fails To Show All Claims Barred By Contractual Liability Exclusion

Mealey's (July 25, 2016, 1:25 PM EDT) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on July 22 held that an insurer has failed to satisfy its burden of establishing that all claims alleged in underlying class actions are excluded from coverage under a “products/completed operations liability and professional liability” insurance policy’s contractual liability exclusion, denying the insurer’s motion for summary judgment in a coverage dispute over lawsuits arising from the insured's service of providing consumers with genetic data from saliva testing (Ironshore Specialty Insurance Co. v. 23andMe, Inc., No. 14-03286, N.D. Calif.; 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 96079)....