Policy Excludes Coverage For Black Lung Disease Claim, Panel Affirms

(January 22, 2019, 12:24 PM EST) -- DENVER — No coverage is provided to the former president of a coal company for an underlying black lung disease claim filed by a former coal miner because the insurer did not implicitly or explicitly agree to cover the company president under the applicable policy, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Jan. 14 (Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. The Clemens Coal Co., et al., No. 17-3249, 10th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 1149)....