An insurance company has said it is not liable in regards to a $10 million lawsuit being pursued against 50 Cent's G:Unit record label because the rapper and his people took over a year to report the incident to which the legal action relates.
The action in question is the civil lawsuit that followed a run in between the then G:Unit signed The Game and a DJ on a radio station in a Maryland town near Washington DC back in January 2005. Tensions grew between Richard 'DJ Xzulu The Big Lipped Bandit' Dunkerson and The Game's entourage after the former made a disparaging remark about the mobile phone ear piece worn by the latter's manager Jimmy 'Henchmen' Rosemond during a radio interview. Shortly after the interview, it is alleged, The Game's posse attacked Dunkerson and another man called Kwasi Jones, the former suffering "serious internal injuries" as a result of the clash. In the criminal investigation that followed The Game himself was charged, but those charges were later dropped. Rosemond, however, was found guilty of a misdemeanor assault in February this year, and was fined $2500 and sentenced to three years of unsupervised probation.
In addition to the criminal investigation, Jones launched a multi-million dollar lawsuit against The Game and all the labels involved with the rapper at the time, including 50 Cent's G:Unit, Eminem's Shady Records and Dr Dre's Aftermath. In addition to the actual assault, Jones also claims the record labels were negligent for releasing several remixes of The Game's Grammy nominated track 'Hate It Or Love It', released as a single in July 2005, in which the rapper seems to boast about the incident. The offending line is "I'm rap's MVP/Don't make me remind y'all what happened in DC".
The litigation is ongoing, but according to the New York Post G:Unit's insurance company, National Fire, has said it will not be liable for any payments 50 Cent or his record label have to make in relation to the suit, because the record company failed to inform them about the incident for more than a year. Fiddy's people are yet to comment on those reports.