(December 4, 2023, 1:25 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on Dec. 1 issued an order granting a motion to amend an answer in a breach of contract suit filed against a commercial property insurer and an insurance syndicate over their failure to cover a condominium’s hurricane-related losses, finding that the proposed fraud defenses were sufficiently pleaded after discovery revealed that the alleged hurricane-related damage purportedly occurred before the hurricane....