Albertsons Cos. didn\u2019t meet the threshold to secure insurance coverage for more than 100 lawsuits alleging the grocery chain stoked the opioid epidemic, a Delaware state court ruled, handing the latest loss to corporate policyholders looking for liability insurers to foot the bill for \u201cpublic nuisance\u201d litigation.<\/p>\n
The underlying lawsuits against Albertsons didn\u2019t seek damages \u201cbecause of bodily injury\u201d and therefore aren\u2019t covered under policies issued by units of American International Group Inc., Chubb Ltd., and other insurers, the Delaware Superior Court said in a ruling<\/a> unsealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n The ruling follows similar decisions<\/a> from the Delaware Supreme Court …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Albertsons Cos. didn\u2019t meet the threshold to secure insurance coverage for more than 100 lawsuits alleging the grocery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[240,3220,5985,35367,3221,26977,3714,7285],"class_list":{"0":"post-64827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chubb","8":"tag-chubb","9":"tag-indemnification","10":"tag-insurance-coverage","11":"tag-nuisance","12":"tag-opioids","13":"tag-pharmacy-care","14":"tag-public-health","15":"tag-summary-judgment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116568710472731359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}