Magistrate Stays Discovery On Insurer’s Duty To Indemnify Senior Living Facility

Mealey's (May 14, 2021, 11:03 AM EDT) -- WILMINGTON, N.C. — A federal magistrate judge in North Carolina on May 5 granted in part an insurer’s motion to stay discovery in its declaratory judgment lawsuit pending resolution of an underlying class action alleging that a senior living facility and its owners breached their contractual duties to provide adequate staffing and personal care and knowingly failed to comply with staffing and personal care obligations, staying discovery on the indemnification issue and allowing discovery to proceed on “coverage” issues and certain counterclaims....