January 06, 2023
Insurance protects policyholders from unforeseen situations, but some circumstances are so strange that even insurers could not have predicted them.
December 20, 2022
A Washington federal judge rejected a treasure hunter's request to have an insurer cover a $7.5 million judgment he won against his former business partner in an intellectual property lawsuit over a stalled expedition, finding that the underlying award was not the result of an accidental "occurrence."
September 23, 2022
An underwater treasure hunter requested that a Washington federal judge reconsider granting insurance coverage in an underlying lawsuit over his stalled hunt for gold from an early 20th-century Alaskan shipwreck.
September 08, 2022
A Washington federal judge ruled that Great American Insurance Co. doesn't have to cover an underlying lawsuit over a treasure hunt for gold lost in a shipwreck in the Edwardian era.