Northwell Health Inc., New York State's largest healthcare provider and private employer, filed suit seeking coverage for coronavirus-related losses under a health care premises pollution liability policy. The case is Northwell Health Inc. v. Illinois Union Insurance Co., case number unavailable.
The suit, filed on July 24th, alleges that Illinois Union Insurance Co.'s (Illinois Union) denial of coverage for the losses it suffered arising from the coronavirus pandemic has forced Northwell Health Inc. (Northwell) to fight a war on two fronts. First, against the worst public health crisis the world has seen in generations, and second, to obtain insurance coverage to which it is clearly entitled.
Northwell is a hospital system that operates 23 hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities in New York. Northwell claims that because it is the state's largest healthcare provider, it was at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19, and was called upon to treat more patients for COVID-19 than any other hospital system, but that it still lost revenue due to the suspension of elective procedures during the outbreak.