Dick's Sporting Goods learned in a dispute with a foreign insurer that U.S. courts won't hesitate to send policyholders abroad to resolve their disputes. (Photo: Shutterstock)
It's bad enough when an insurance company wrongfully refuses to pay a claim and a policyholder is forced to resort to coverage litigation to vindicate its rights. It's even worse when a policyholder seeking to enforce its policy must initiate coverage litigation against a foreign-domiciled insurance company in an unfamiliar forum on the other side of the globe.
Dick's Sporting Goods v. PICC
Yet as a federal court recently explained in Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc. v. PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited Suzhou Branch [Case No. 2:16-cv-01635-DCS-RC, W.D. Pa., July 28, 2017]: "International commerce creates international consequences. One such consequence is litigating a garden-variety insurance dispute on the other side of the world."
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