Hartford, Travelers Won’t Face Combined Virus-Loss Claims (2)

Hartford Financial Services Group, The Travelers Cos. Inc. and other insurers won’t have to face a consolidation of hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of business-interruption claims tied to the Covid-19 outbreak, a group of judges concluded.

Having one judge oversee more than 1,000 cases -- grouped by individual insurers -- would be too cumbersome and it’s more efficient to have courts around the U.S. decide whether the coronavirus fallout triggered coverage by major insurers such as Hartford, Travelers and Lloyds of London, the legal panel ruled Friday. The group did agree to have a federal judge in ...