Rhonda Hill Wilson sued her law firm's insurance broker, USI, after the insurer, The Hartford, denied a claim for COVID-related business interruption. (Photo: Shutterstock) Rhonda Hill Wilson sued her law firm's insurance broker, USI, after the insurer, The Hartford, denied a claim for COVID-related business interruption. (Photo: Shutterstock)

After an insurance carrier denied a lawyer and her law firm's claim for lost business income due to the COVID-19-related shutdown, she sued both her carrier and the insurance producer that procured the policy. In one of the first cases to consider producer liability in COVID-19 cases, Judge Eduardo Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed the lawsuit against the producer and the carrier.

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