Syngenta Crop Protection AG defeated Zurich Insurance Group Ltd.'s allegations that it wrongly concealed a $2 million Kirkland & Ellis research fee and personal injury claims related to the agriculture company’s herbicide.
The insurer failed to convince a Superior Court of Delaware judge that ChemChina-owned Syngenta lied in its insurance renewal application by failing to disclose allegations that Syngenta’s herbicide caused Parkinson’s disease and concealing that it paid Kirkland to research the litigation risk of those claims.
The dispute stems from Zurich’s refusal to cover Syngenta’s defense costs arising out of a 2017 lawsuit alleging the herbicide, Paraquat, caused plaintiffs ...
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