Multinational Pharmaceutical Company—Cyber insurance recovery claim

Argued the cause for amici curiae in a cyber insurance recovery claim involving a multinational pharmaceutical company before the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division. We convinced the Court that the war exclusion in an all-risk property policy is inapplicable to a cyberattack on a non-military company, even if it originated from a government or sovereign power. The court agreed that the exclusion’s plain language requires the involvement of military action. The insurers, therefore, were required to pay the $1.4 billion in damages under the “all-risk” policies.