A TV company has launched a lawsuit claiming more than $6.9 million from Bermudian-based insurance firm OneBeacon Insurance Group.

The legal action against OneBeacon arm Atlantic Specialty Insurance by NBC Universal Media’s Universal Cable Productions alleges breach of contract by the insurer for failing to pay out after filming of a TV series in Israel was delayed after rocket attacks by Palestinian group Hamas in 2014.

Atlantic Specialty Insurance, however, claims that it does not have to pay under the policy’s war exclusion after the suit was filed in a Los Angeles court.

New York-based Universal, however, insists that the war exclusion does not apply because Hamas is not a sovereign entity.

Atlantic Specialty insured the TV show Dig, set mostly in Jerusalem, is about an Israeli-based FBI agent whose investigation of an American’s death leads to the discovery of a 2,000-year-old conspiracy.

The ten-episode season premiered in March 2014 on the USA cable network with a pilot.

Filming in Israel ground to a halt after Hamas targeted the country with rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip in July that year.

Universal postponed production, which had been scheduled to resume in July.

But after the US State Department warned of a potential escalation, filming was moved to Croatia and New Mexico.