9th Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in TV Production Insurance Fight
"War" and "warlike action by a military force" have specialized meanings in insurance, and a lower court erred when it used ordinary language readings of those terms to find war exclusions in a TV production company's policy applied to a…
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2014 attack by Hamas on Israel that halted a TV production (see 1804120004), said a 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel Friday. A docket 17-56672 opinion vacated summary judgment on Universal Cable Productions' bad-faith claim Atlantic Specialty Insurance, and remanded it. The opinion, by Judges Ransey Cole, Wallace Tashima and Jacqueline Nguyen was penned by Tashima. Atlantic outside counsel didn't comment Monday.