A federal choose in Connecticut has decided {that a} virus exclusion of their coverage bars legislation agency Kennedy Hodges & Associates and the proprietor of its workplace constructing from bringing a enterprise interruption insurance coverage declare in opposition to Twin Metropolis Hearth Insurance coverage Firm over COVID-19-related losses.
In an April 5 opinion, U.S. District Decide Omar A. Williams for the District of Connecticut granted defendants Twin Metropolis Hearth Insurance coverage Firm’s movement for judgment on the pleadings, after figuring out the corporate had unequivocally proven that the virus exclusion operated to exclude protection for the plaintiffs’ declare, and thus had been entitled to a judgment as a matter of legislation.