Tina Turner Musical Lawsuit Can Keep On Rolling, Judge Rules

NEW YORK CITY — The Tina Turner Musical can keep on rolling, rolling, rolling with its lawsuit.

The production company behind "TINA: The Tina Turner Musical" has the go ahead to sue an insurance provider over losses incurred during the COVID-19 shutdown, a New York Supreme Court justice ruled this week.

Justice Andrew Borrok issued a two-page decision Monday ruling Tina Turner Musical could challenge a "communicable disease" exclusion — found within its $23 million event cancellation policy with insurance company Chubb European Group — because the show was shuttered by a state order and not a national warning.

"[The musical's] losses do not fall within the communicable disease exclusion as stated," Borrok wrote. "They stem from former New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo’s March 12, 2020 Executive Order."

Press representatives for Clyde & Co., the law firm representing Chubb, did not immediately respond to Patch's request for comment, nor did attorneys for Tina Turner Musical LLC.

Tina Turner Musical LLC first filed in March a lawsuit contending its insurers failed to properly investigate the claim they submitted shortly after Cuomo's Broadway shutdown began, court records show.

"Chubb placed its own financial interests above those of its policyholder and wrongfully denied TTM’s claim," the lawsuit contends. "Despite TTM having paid substantial premiums to cover the risk of cancellation of performances of The Tina Turner Musical."

Chubb's attorneys responded in April with a motion to dismiss arguing the Broadway show's policy did not cover quarantines or “national or international body” warnings, court records show.

Ultimately, the New York justice ruled with the musical, which reopened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in October.

The ruling confirmed one cast-member's interpretation of the iconic star, who in a promotional video for the musical, described Tina Turner as “Undefeated."