No Coverage Owed For Damages Caused By Collapsed Liquid Propane Tanks

Mealey's (September 21, 2017, 12:59 PM EDT) -- WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — No coverage is afforded for damages to an insured’s property caused by the collapse of liquid propane tanks into a sinkhole because the sinkhole was caused by excess rainfall, which is clearly precluded under the policy’s flood exclusion, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Sept. 18 in granting an insurer’s motion for summary judgment on claims of breach of contract and bad faith (Heller’s Gas Inc. v. International Insurance Company of Hannover Ltd., et al., No. 15-1350, M.D. Pa., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 151072)....