Judge: Expert Opinions Fail To Refute That Accumulated Water Included Surface Water

Mealey's (January 15, 2019, 2:23 PM EST) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge on Dec. 21 held that insureds failed to satisfy their initial burden of demonstrating that flood water did not, in any way, contribute to their building damages, granting a business insurer’s motion for summary judgment in a breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit arising from a July 2016 thunderstorm in Princeton, N.J. (Tere Villamil, et al. v. Sentinel Insurance Company, Limited., et. al., No. 17-1566, D. N.J., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 214901)....