Panel: Exclusion Does Not Bar Coverage For Losses Over Broadway Show Cancellation

Mealey's (December 14, 2022, 10:16 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A year to the day a lower court denied an insurer’s motion to dismiss Tina Turner Musical LLC’s coverage lawsuit, a New York appeals court affirmed the lower court’s ruling that the policy’s communicable disease exclusion does not bar coverage for the insured’s losses arising from the cancellation of its Broadway show during the coronavirus pandemic because these losses stemmed from the government’s executive orders banning performances and gatherings in New York theaters....