Italy’s largest insurance firm must stand trial in California in a $135 million suit alleging that the company failed to fulfill a policy taken out in Europe by a Jewish man who perished in the Holocaust. The judge in the case rejected the assertion by Assicurazioni Generali that the company is not subject to the jurisdiction of a California court in a matter originating in a foreign country. The decision could also be applied to other European insurers and to more than 6,000 Holocaust survivors living in California.
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