New York Whiskey Distillery Sues Insurer Over Broken Barrels

An upstate New York distillery sued an insurer asking it to pay for $2.5 million worth of whiskey lost when dozens of barrels fell and burst.

“Central Mutual conducted a claim investigation that appeared designed to delay the claim and seek ways to deny the claim, and even though its investigation did not reveal the facts necessary to deny the claim, it denied it anyway based on positions that no reasonable insurer would be expected to take,” Vale Fox Distillery said in a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.

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