Panel Grants Dismissal Of Pharmaceutical Distributor’s Claims Against 3 Insurers

(August 17, 2016, 12:01 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 26 granted motions by a pharmaceutical distributor insured and three of its five insurers to dismiss the insured's appeal of a lower court's finding that the insurers have no duty to defend or indemnify against the State of West Virginia's lawsuit seeking to recover billions in damages for the state's prescription pharmaceutical drug abuse epidemic (The Travelers Property Casualty Company of America, et al. v. Anda Inc. and Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc., No. 15-11510-B, 11th Cir.)....