{"id":2759,"date":"2025-10-29T13:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/tanger-properties-takes-ace-liberty-mutual-to-court-over-covid-19-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:40:19","slug":"tanger-properties-takes-ace-liberty-mutual-to-court-over-covid-19-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/tanger-properties-takes-ace-liberty-mutual-to-court-over-covid-19-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanger Properties takes ACE, Liberty Mutual to court over COVID-19 claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After Tanger submitted its claims, both ACE and Liberty Mutual denied coverage. The insurers asserted that Tanger had not established any direct physical loss or damage to property and that the claimed losses were excluded under the policies. Tanger, in response, pointed to the language in its policies, which insured \u201cagainst all risks of direct physical loss of or damage to property described herein.\u201d The policies did not contain a choice of law provision specifying which state\u2019s law would apply to coverage disputes, but did include a clause stating that the insurer would submit to the jurisdiction of any competent court within the United States at the insured\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Tanger submitted its claims, both ACE and Liberty Mutual denied coverage. The insurers asserted that Tanger had not established any direct physical loss or damage to property and that the claimed losses were excluded under the policies. Tanger, in response, pointed to the language in its policies, which insured \u201cagainst all risks of direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1527,263,852,1679,1170,1171,1678,424,1677],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-ace","tag-claims","tag-court","tag-covid19","tag-liberty","tag-mutual","tag-properties","tag-takes","tag-tanger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}