9th Circuit:  Insurer Breached Contract When It Denied Coverage Under War Exclusions

(July 17, 2019, 1:38 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 12 reversed a lower federal court’s finding that war exclusions in a motion picture/television producers portfolio insurance policy bar coverage for the expenses a production company incurred in postponing and subsequently relocating the production of the television show "Dig" from Israel because of conflict in summer 2014, finding that the insurer breached the policy when it denied coverage by defining the conflict as “war” and “warlike action by a military force” (Universal Cable Productions LLC, et al. v. Atlantic Specialty Insurance Co., No. 17-56672, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 20704)....