( July 28, 2023, 2:15 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal magistrate judge in Illinois on July 27 denied an insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in its lawsuit disputing coverage for an underlying class action alleging that its insured violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), concluding that neither the ejusdem generis or noscitur a sociis canon resolves an ambiguity in the policy’s “recording and distribution,” “access or disclosure” and “employment-related practices” exclusions and that the exclusions’ plain text is so broad that they “would eliminate statutory claims for the ‘personal and advertising injury’” the policies allege to cover elsewhere....