Loss Of Power Constitutes Single Occurrence, Louisiana Panel Says In Reversal

(April 25, 2016, 1:51 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana appeals panel found April 20 that the loss of power to a hospital’s cooling system following Hurricane Katrina is a single occurrence under a commercial general liability insurance policy and that an insured is responsible for only one retained limit of $50,000, reversing a lower court’s ruling that the insured owed a separate retained limit for each claim related to the power outage (David Thebault v. American Home Assurance Company, et al., No. 2015-CA-0800, La. App., 4th Cir.; 2016 La. App. LEXIS 764)....

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