9th Circuit Says No Coverage Owed For Water Damage; Extracontractual Claims Fail

(July 24, 2024, 1:07 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A district court did not err in granting a homeowners insurer’s motion for summary judgment in a water damage coverage dispute because no coverage is afforded under the policy regardless of the actual cause of the damage and because no reasonable juror could find that the insurer’s denial of coverage was unreasonable, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said July 23....