Insurer Sues Firearm Company Over D.C. School Shooting Dispute

An insurer asked a California federal court to rule it owes no payments for a firearm company’s defense and judgment costs in litigation over practices that allegedly led to a 2022 school shooting in northwest Washington, D.C.

James River Insurance Co. insured SureFire LLC under a commercial general liability policy and an excess policy from 2021 to 2022.

The shooting, which took place at Edmund Burke School in April 2022, “was the foreseeable and entirely preventable result of a chain of events initiated by the defendants’ deceptive and unfair advertising and marketing practices, which are designed to target and appeal ...