Metallica 's lawsuit against Lloyd's of London for allegedly failing to cover losses caused by the postponement of their Latin American tour has been accepted by a Los Angeles court.
The lawsuit was filed in June when Metallica alleged that the insurer's standard policy on "cancellation, abandonment, and no-show insurance" was not honored. According to information from the specialized website Business Insurance , there is an exclusion clause for virus-related incidents in the coverage contracted by the band, but the court ruled in favor of the group's claims and the lawsuit was accepted.
According to the insurance company, there is no coverage in this case because the cancellation of the dates was due to the pandemic, that is, an event related to a virus. Therefore, the defense argues that it will not be possible to reimburse the band.
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On the other hand, Metallica's lawyer argues that the dates were canceled due to a series of circumstances, such as travel restrictions and government isolation orders. "It is not possible to conclusively state that the pandemic is the efficient proximate cause of the cancellations because there are other adequately alleged causes that are covered by the policy," the lawsuit states.
Among their South American tours, Metallica was scheduled to play in four Brazilian cities – Porto Alegre, Curitiba, São Paulo, and Belo Horizonte. These events have been postponed and no new dates have been announced at this time.
Although the lawsuit mentions the cancellation of the tour, there has been no official statement from the event organizers in Brazil canceling the shows, as the band is awaiting government authorization to reschedule the dates, as announced on the Eventim . Tickets will be honored for the new dates.
In this case, the term "cancelled" legally refers to dates that have been postponed (in practice, cancelled) and does not imply that the band will not come to the country with the WorldWired Tour in the near future.
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