In a ruling that bucked the national trend, the North Carolina Supreme Court recently held that restaurants’ business interruption losses caused by the COVID shutdown were covered under an all-risk property policy. North...more
And so it begins . . . one of the first coronavirus insurance coverage cases in N.C. was filed recently in Guilford County Superior Court. Not surprisingly, the plaintiffs are restaurants that were forced to close or curtail...more
The coronavirus has turned all of our lives upside down in the past two weeks. Who would have dreamed that we would be required to work from home, courts would be operating on a drastically reduced schedule, the NCAA...more
Accardi v. Hartford Underwriters Ins. Co., 2018 NCBC 109 (Oct. 22, 2018)
A storm damage claim with only $169.30 in controversy has set the stage for a battle over actual cash value calculations.
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In a recent case involving claims against an insurance broker, Judge Graham Mullen firmly put the burden of reviewing an insurance policy and understanding coverage exclusions on the insured. Granting summary judgment for...more