Nationwide Beats Personal Injury Firm’s Privacy Insurance Suit

Exclusions under a personal injury law firm’s policy with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. bar the firm from seeking coverage of defense fees in a privacy violation lawsuit, a North Carolina federal court ruled.

Robert Bradley Van Laningham and his firm Bradley Law Group failed to show that the underlying suit is covered by the Nationwide policy, the US District Judge James Dever of the Eastern District of North Carolina said in his Monday decision.

The lawsuit alleged that the firm violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act by obtaining private driver information from an accident report. The information was later used ...