An outbreak of hepatitis A linked to pomegranate seeds produced in Turkey and sold in the United States has resulted in more than 25 lawsuits and 3,000 claims of illness in 11 states last year. Now an insurance company for one of the defendants wants to limit its liability by having a federal court declare that the claims stem from one “occurrence.”
Maryland Casualty Co. has asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to cap its liability at $2 million for alleged wrongdoing by Fallon Trading Co., which brokered a shipment of pomegranate arils contaminated with hepatitis A, according to the insurance company’s complaint for declaratory relief filed on May 23.
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