Pollution Liability Insurer Failed To Show No Coverage Owed For COVID-19 Losses

(December 6, 2021, 3:51 PM EST) -- BRONX, N.Y. — A New York justice on Oct. 15 denied a pollution legal liability insurer’s motion to dismiss an insured’s claims for breach of contract and bad faith arising out of the insured’s claim for business interruption losses caused by the shutdown orders issued in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic because the insurer failed to show that the policy affords no coverage for the losses....