Panel: Related Claims Provision Bars Coverage For $303,592 Discrimination Judgment

( August 13, 2026, 1:31 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — The First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s judgment in favor of an insurer in a declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking to collect the $303,592.20 default judgment that an insured was ordered to pay its former employee for pregnancy-related discrimination claims, holding that the related claims provision in the policy’s liability coverage terms and conditions (LCTC) applies to bar coverage....