{"id":248936,"date":"2026-07-22T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248936\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:45:08","slug":"pennsylvania-justices-nix-insurers-bid-to-avoid-trafficking-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248936\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Justices Nix Insurers\u2019 Bid to Avoid Trafficking Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania\u2019s ban on sex trafficking doesn\u2019t override insurers\u2019 duty to defend \u2014 and possibly indemnify \u2014 a Philadelphia hotel and related entities that were allegedly negligent in failing to stop trafficking at the inn, the state\u2019s high court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the General Assembly has expressed the Commonwealth\u2019s policy against sex trafficking by criminalizing it, the criminal statute does not provide a justification for the judicial crafting of an exception to insurance coverage in a policy otherwise silent on the subject,\u201d the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said in a unanimous <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/bmlo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">decision<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The justices were addressing questions <a data-terminal-id=\"SI4IRLT1UM0W\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/insurance\/insurance-trafficking-questions-sent-to-pennsylvania-justices\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">referred<\/a> to the state\u2019s high &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania\u2019s ban on sex trafficking doesn\u2019t override insurers\u2019 duty to defend \u2014 and possibly indemnify \u2014 a Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[106539,810,106540,106542,97227,106538,17729,28,30,29,106541],"class_list":["post-248936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-exclusions-from-coverage","tag-human-trafficking","tag-indemnification","tag-insurance-agents","tag-insurance-brokers","tag-insurer-duty-to-defend","tag-negligence","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-sex-offenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}