Insurance – Duty To Defend – Storage Unit – Medical Records – VCPA 
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Published: September 29, 2010
Tags: Insurance, Judge T.S. Ellis III, U.S. District Court - Eastern District
An insurance company has a duty to defend a public storage company against a physician-client’s claim that the Public Storage and codefendant Sam’s Contracting Inc. are liable under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act for the unlawful removal and destruction of medical records the physician stored in a self-storage unit leased from Public Storage, but the ...
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