The Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO), which develops standard insurance policy forms for use by insurers, recently released its first cannabis-related endorsements (Cannabis Endorsements) to the businessowner policy form. This new release provides five cannabis exclusion endorsements; two of the endorsements change property coverage for cannabis, and the other three endorsements change liability coverage for
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Coverage for Cannabis? How Cannabis’s Legal Limbo Affects Property Insurance Policies
By Alex Purvis, Whitt Steineker & D. Butler Sparks on
A recent federal court of appeals’ decision raises interesting questions for all policyholders, particularly commercial and residential landlords with tenants that grow, possess, and/or distribute cannabis, even where it is legal to do so under state law.
In K.V.G. Properties, Inc. v. Westfield Ins. Co., decided by the United States Court of Appeals for…