The Chattanooga Lookouts, Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Amarillo Sod Poodles, and more than 10 other minor league baseball teams are suing their insurance providers over denied claims for pandemic-related losses.
The New York and Texas teams join a long list of companies taking insurers to court to settle coverage disputes after the coronavirus forced states to shutter nonessential businesses and sports leagues to hit the pause button on their seasons.
With much of the minor league baseball season postponed and potentially canceled, teams face “catastrophic financial losses,” according to the complaint filed Tuesday in a federal district court in Pennsylvania against ...