Insured Casino Failed To Show Coverage Owed For COVID-19 Losses

Mealey's (April 19, 2021, 10:48 AM EDT) -- UTICA, N.Y. — A New York federal judge on April 15 determined that no coverage is afforded for a casino’s business interruption losses sustained as a result of the shutdown of the casino in response to the COVID-19 pandemic because the insured casino failed to prove that the policy’s communicable disease provision affords coverage and that the policy’s contamination exclusion does not apply as a bar to coverage....