A California poultry processor is asking a federal judge to force the company’s insurers to cover the $14.1 million in losses it suffered after U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors spotted four live German cockroaches at its plants.

Foster Poultry Farms Inc. filed suit on June 18 against XL Insurance and a number of Lloyd’s of London underwriters for denying its claim for the cost to the company of destroying 1.3 million pounds of contaminated poultry and of the lost business when the government forced the facility to shut down for fumigation and cleaning.

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