Oops, She Sued Them

I'm not sure who I should root for...

Britney Spears is suing eight insurance companies that rejected a $9.8 million claim she filed after injuring her knee during a video shoot last summer. Spears later had to cancel her 2004 summer tour.

The lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan says Spears and her company, Britney Touring Inc., paid the firms more than $1.3 million in premiums to insure her 2004 Onyx Hotel Tour through the United States, Canada and Europe.

On June 8, "while the policies were in full force and effect," court papers say, Spears hurt her left knee in New York during choreography for a video of her song "Outrageous." She had surgery days later to repair the knee.

Court papers say that after Spears canceled the tour, seven of the insurance companies, all in Britain, refused to pay. The other company, a French firm, did not respond at all, court papers say.

The seven British companies said that during a pre-tour medical exam on Feb. 5, 2004, Spears failed to tell them about a pre-existing left knee injury and surgery she had less than five years earlier.

I know we're all waiting anxiously to see this injustice cleared up.