{"id":95584,"date":"2026-07-01T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/95584\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T22:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:05:17","slug":"chubb-unit-loses-bid-to-reverse-smuckers-peanut-butter-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/95584\/","title":{"rendered":"Chubb Unit Loses Bid to Reverse Smucker\u2019s Peanut Butter Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J.M. Smucker Co. defeated a Chubb Ltd. unit\u2019s efforts to reverse a district court\u2019s finding that a peanut butter salmonella outbreak was a single \u201coccurrence\u201d in a liability coverage dispute involving thousands of consumer complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio state law and Ace American Insurance Co.&#8217;s two commercial general liability policies with Smucker\u2019s consider the bacterial exposure one occurrence, instead of hundreds as the carrier argued under a lot endorsement, Judge Eugene E. Siler Jr. said in a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/JMSmuckerCompanyvAceAmericanInsuranceCompanyDocketNo25037996thCir?doc_id=X19N7G39FGU8J8P4CSNQI8D6M2D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opinion<\/a> for the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Under Ace\u2019s reading of the two policies, Smucker\u2019s would\u2019ve had to pay defense &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.M. Smucker Co. defeated a Chubb Ltd. unit\u2019s efforts to reverse a district court\u2019s finding that a peanut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[131],"tags":[240,1081,7285],"class_list":["post-95584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chubb","tag-chubb","tag-product-recalls","tag-summary-judgment"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116846993439332231","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584","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=95584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}