Weintraub v. Great Northern Insurance Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK PHILIP WEINTRAUB and JAMELIA WEINTRAUB, 21-cv-07965 (JSR) -v- MEMORANDUM ORDER GREAT NORTHERN INSURANCE CO., Defendant. JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J.: This case relates to Philip and Jamelia Weintraubs’ insurance claim for about $1.5 million of art they claimed was found missing from their storage space in August 2019. The Weintraubs’ insurer -- the Great Northern Insurance Co., a/k/a Chubb (“Chubb”) -- investigated the Weintraubs’ claim for about a year before finally denying coverage in July 2021 on three grounds: 1) that the Weintraubs…