March 03, 2020
Just before a federal trial was set to begin in Los Angeles, an NBCUniversal Media subsidiary reached a settlement Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging its insurer acted in bad faith by denying coverage, under a so-called war exclusion, to a TV production that relocated due to a 2014 armed conflict between Israel and Hamas.
October 11, 2017
A 2014 armed conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group constitutes a "war" under an exclusion in Universal Cable Productions' insurance policy, defeating the company's bid to get coverage for the cost to move production of a TV series away from Jerusalem amid the strife, a California federal judge ruled in a decision made public Tuesday.
April 25, 2017
The question of whether a 2014 armed conflict between Israel and the Hamas militant group was a "war" has taken center stage in Universal Cable Productions' bid for coverage of costs to move production of a TV series away from Jerusalem amid the strife, with the company's insurer asserting that coverage is barred by several war exclusions.