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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Insurers’ Arguments that Public Policy Bars Coverage for Hotel Sex-Trafficking Claims

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Insurers’ Arguments that Public Policy Bars Coverage for Hotel Sex-Trafficking Claims

By: Donald W. Kiel, Erin D. Fleury, and Kyle C. McLester

A pro-policyholder trend addressed in one of our recent posts continued in July, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously rejected insurers’ efforts to invoke public policy to avoid their coverage obligations to hotel operators accused of benefiting from the use of their hotels by third-party criminals to commit criminal sex trafficking.

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