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Foo Fighters settle insurance lawsuit

By | Published on Thursday 13 October 2016

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The Foo Fighters have settled that previously reported legal battle with their insurers that centred on payments due for two sets of cancelled shows, one set caused by Dave Grohl breaking his leg, the others called off in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the Bataclan venue in Paris last year.

Various insurance firms and brokers Robertson Taylor were named in the lawsuit. As previously reported, the band alleged that the latter had failed to properly advise them of the impact of rescheduling the UK shows that had been axed as a result of Grohl’s injuries, the insurance pay-out being significantly different if said shows were classified as ‘postponed’ rather than properly ‘cancelled’.

The dispute over the second batch of cancelled shows centred on whether the ‘terrorism’ clause in the band’s insurance policy should apply. In their original lawsuit the band said that, while insurers seemed happy to pay on two French shows cancelled following the Bataclan attacks, with regard to two further shows in Italy and Spain, the insurance firms had been “engaged in a seemingly never-ending series of requests for increasingly irrelevant information”.

Terms of the settlement between the band and the various insurers are not known, though – according to Billboard – a court filing last week officially called off the litigation, a move done “with prejudice”, meaning Grohl et al cannot launch new proceedings in relation to this specific dispute.



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