NY Whiskey Distillery Gets Early Win on Barrel Loss Insurance

Sept. 10, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

Central Mutual Insurance Co. must compensate a Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based distillery for dozens of barrels of whiskey lost when storage racks unexpectedly collapsed, a federal court ruled.

The policy issued to Vale Fox Distillery LLC provides coverage for the lost whiskey, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said in a Tuesday order, though the court declined for now to determine how to calculate the value of the covered losses.

Vale Fox sued Central Mutual in June 2024, seeking coverage under an industrial processing insurance policy for the lost whiskey and alleging the insurer denied the claim ...

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