The California Supreme Court has agreed to take up a lower court decision which held an insurer didn’t have to pay to defend a drug company from claims related to the opioid epidemic.
The state’s high court on Wednesday indicated it granted a petition to review in Traveler’s Property Casualty Company of America v. Actavis, a case where the Fourth District Court of Appeal held late last year that Hartford, Connecticut-based Travelers didn’t have a duty to defend or indemnify Watson Pharmaceuticals in lawsuits filed by two California counties and the city of Chicago.
