Art Gallery Sues Insurer to Recover Business Losses from Fire During Superstorm Sandy

NEW YORK — A New York City art gallery that sustained business interruption losses following a fire that occurred while Superstorm Sandy was affecting the region has sued its insurer for covering only a portion of the loss based on an anti-concurrent causation clause in the gallery’s policy.

Morgan Lehman Gallery filed the complaint Nov. 19 in New York County Supreme Court, accusing Hartford Fire Insurance Co. of wrongfully denying a claim for losses that occurred in the week immediately following the fire, a period when the insurer says Morgan Lehman would have been closed anyway because of Sandy.

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