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Kanye West’s lawsuit against Lloyd’s could all fall down as the insurance giant has filed a countersuit against the rapper’s company Very Good Touring.
West’s firm originally launched legal proceedings earlier this month alleging that insurers had failed to pay nearly US$10 million for the rapper’s cancelled Saint Pablo tour last year. The lawsuit was filed against several Lloyd’s syndicates and alleged breach of contract, seeking punitive damages and attorney fees beyond the US$9.8 million in concert losses.
Now Lloyd’s has fired its own lawsuit back at the musician alleging that the rapper’s breakdown, which led to the cancellation of the tour, was his own fault,
TMZ reports.
West cancelled several concert appearances last year following the high profile burglary in which his wife, Kim Kardashian West, was reportedly held at gun point. West called off the remainder of his tour after being admitted to UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital for undisclosed reasons.
West’s attorney, Howard King, told
TMZ that the countersuit “is the same generic response Lloyd’s files when they don’t want to honour a legitimate claim but can’t find a factual basis to deny the claim.”
Very Good Touring, in its own court documents, said that West and 11 associates had given statements under oath to insurance investigators in a bid to get the claim paid.
With high profile, ongoing feuds with Taylor Swift, Jay Z, Nike and others, is his beef with the insurance industry a step too far?
The courts may have to decide.
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