Insurer Asks Delaware High Court To Find No Coverage For Rite Aid Opioid Suits

Mealey's (May 25, 2021, 3:43 PM EDT) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — An insurer recently asked the Delaware Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s ruling that there is coverage under a 2015 insurance policy for underlying lawsuits seeking damages for the costs arising out of Rite Aid Corp.’s distribution and its pharmacies’ dispensing of opioids, challenging the lower court’s finding that some of the underlying economic losses sought against the insured by governmental entities “are arguably because of bodily injury” and the governmental entities’ lawsuits and similar opioid actions assert one occurrence....