Inventory Not “in the Open” When under Tarp

 

In Twenhafel v. State Auto Prop. and Cas. Ins. Co., 2009 WL 2914281 C.A.7 (Ill.), the United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, reviewed whether the loss to an insured business owner's wood inventory fell within his insurance policy's exclusion for rain damage to personal property “in the open.”