Judge: Travel Insurer Needs To Make Insured Whole For 'Total Original Airfare Cost'

Mealey's (October 1, 2020, 8:35 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois on Sept. 29 held that an insured has not been made whole for the actual cash value of her roundtrip flight to Miami from where her cruise was scheduled to depart before it was canceled due to the novel coronavirus, partially denying a travel insurer's motion to dismiss her putative class action lawsuit in finding that the policy "requires full reimbursement in the event of a trip cancellation occasioned by illness or quarantine, either of which plausibly applies" (Christine V. Dowding v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, No. 20-4118, N.D. Ill., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179207)....