Judge: 3 Policy Exclusions Bar Coverage For Damage Caused By Marijuana Operations

Mealey's (November 10, 2017, 8:32 AM EST) -- DETROIT — Finding that tenants' use of an insured’s commercial property units to grow marijuana was illegal or at the very least dishonest, a Michigan federal judge on Nov. 8 held that coverage for the insured’s losses arising from this activity is barred by an insurance policy’s illegal/dishonest acts provision, as well as two other policy exclusions (K.V.G. Properties Inc. v. Westfield Insurance Co., No. 16-11561, E.D. Mich., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 185005)....