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Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms helping to make sense of insurance, employment, tax, securities, M&A, risk management, and every other consideration touched by this crisis. Follow the channel for a daily email brief of the latest and best updates. less -
Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP

North State Deli: A New Outbreak of COVID-19 Litigation?

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Civil-authority “stay-at-home” orders issued in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic were just one layer of the outbreak’s sweeping impact on people and businesses worldwide. The pandemic has resurfaced in North Carolina in...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

WA State Court: No COVID-19 Coverage in Tulalip Tribes v. Lexington

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In a recent COVID-19 Washington State insurance bad faith case, Tulalip Tribes of Washington v. Lexington Ins. Co., Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals affirmed Washington’s stance holding lost physical use of...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Judges Wipe Out Business Interruption Policyholders’ First (And Only) COVID Win

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Out of the 1,199 (and counting) trial court rulings addressing Covid business interruption lawsuits, only one of them resulted in a victory for the policyholder. Back in 2022, Baylor College of Medicine won $12 million from...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

North Carolina Supreme Court: Government-ordered business closures during COVID-19 lockdowns constitute 'direct physical loss'...

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Steven Hix and G. Benjamin Milam of Bradley discuss a pair of recent North Carolina Supreme Court rulings on coverage for pandemic-related losses, one of which gave policyholders a rare win. On December 13, the North...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

January 2025 Insurance Update

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We kick off the year with a quartet of state supreme court decisions and an intermediate appellate court ruling that has insurers breathing a harmonious sigh of relief. Policyholders and insurers often disagree over what the...more

Kilpatrick

COVID All-Risk Policies

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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

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Supreme Court Of North Carolina Holds That Losses Caused By The COVID-19 Shutdown Orders Are Direct Physical Loss Covered By...

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On December 13, 2024, the Supreme Court of North Carolina broke with the nationwide trend, holding that, absent a virus exclusion, commercial property insurance policies cover losses covered by the shutdown orders issued in...more

McGuireWoods LLP

North Carolina Supreme Court Unlocks the Door to COVID-19 Business Interruption Coverage, Holding that Pandemic-Era Restrictions...

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Last week, the North Carolina Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling in North State Deli, LLC v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company, siding with a group of North Carolina restaurants that sought business interruption...more

Cozen O'Connor

Claims Notes: October 2024

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A dental practice submitted a business interruption claim to its property insurers due to the COVID-19 shutdown orders. The insurers denied coverage, citing a lack of physical damage to the premises. Breaking with national...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

John’s Grill, Inc. v. Hartford Financial Services, Group, Inc.: Illusory Coverage, Unambiguous Policy Language, and the...

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In its latest Covid-era coverage case, John’s Grill, Inc. v. Hartford Financial Services, Group, Inc., the California Supreme Court held that an insured cannot use the “illusory coverage doctrine to transform the policy’s...more

Lathrop GPM

Excuse the Interruption

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All eyes are on the New Jersey Supreme Court as we await oral arguments on the latest business interruption coverage dispute. In the lawsuit, an Atlantic City casino, Ocean Walk, seeks reimbursement for costs incurred during...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Commercial Division Rejects Yet Another Insured’s Claim for Coverage for Covid-Related Revenues Losses

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Does the business harm caused by COVID-19 qualify as “direct physical loss” for insurance purposes? In Spirit Airlines, Inc. v. American Home Assurance Company, Index No. 655755/2021, Commercial Division Justice Robert R....more

Quinn Emanuel

Victory for AIG in Covid-19 Business Interruption Case

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The firm recently scored a significant victory for AIG unit American Home Assurance Company in a high-profile COVID-19 business interruption case brought by Spirit Airlines in the New York State Supreme Court, New York County...more

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Insurance Litigation Update - October 2022

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COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Disputes Reach the Appellate Bench - Since businesses began suffering losses from the COVID-19 pandemic and associated governmental restrictions in early 2020, over 2,300 lawsuits have been...more

Kennedys

Louisiana appellate court reverses COVID-19 coverage ruling

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A Louisiana intermediate appellate court issued its decision in the appeal of Cajun Conti, LLC et al. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London et al., Case No. 2021-CA-0343, on June 15, 2022. The plurality decision of the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The California Supreme Court (and Court of Appeal) - July 15, 2022

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While not from the California Supreme Court, we are reporting on a decision from the California Court of Appeal because of its importance to myriad COVID-19 insurance coverage actions currently being litigated in California. ...more

Carlton Fields

Fifth Circuit Concludes That Compliance With Pandemic-Related Shutdown Orders Does Not Constitute “Direct Physical Loss of or...

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In the recent decision in Q Clothier New Orleans LLC v. Twin City Fire Insurance Co., the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of an insured’s claim for coverage under a property policy for loss arising from...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Ninth Circuit Rejects Insurance Coverage for COVID Losses

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On March 16, 2022, the Ninth Circuit joined other appellate courts in finding that restaurants were not entitled to insurance coverage for losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. A panel of judges issued an unpublished...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Business Insurance Coverage in the Time of COVID

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The COVID-19 pandemic has now been with us for almost two years. In that time, it has brought hardships and lost profits to many sectors of the business community, from hotels to restaurants to brick-and-mortar stores. As a...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Part Three: Reviewing Key U.S. Insurance Decisions, Trends, & Developments

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COVID-19 Business Interruption Coverage Litigation - This is the third installment of our series of articles reviewing some of the key trends and developments currently impacting the U.S. insurance industry. The issuance...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New York Insurance Coverage Law Update — Compilation 2021

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Cozen O'Connor

Seventh Circuit Continues String of Insurer Victories in COVID-19 Business Interruption Litigation

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At least five Circuit Courts of Appeal have now come out in favor of insurers in COVID-19 business interruption lawsuits. The latest is the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Sandy Point Dental, P.C. v. Cincinnati Ins. Co.,...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses

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For our last episode of 2021, Lynda, joined by Insurance Recovery Group attorneys Eric Jesse and Joseph Saka, close out the year with a BANG! …a year in review of the COVID-related coverage rollercoaster policyholders have...more

Morgan Lewis

Arbitrator Denies Cover for Policyholders Regarding Business Interruption Losses

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A group of hospitality policyholders failed in their attempt to obtain cover under a business interruption policy as it was determined, in an ad hoc arbitration, that the UK central government did not constitute “a competent...more

Payne & Fears

COVID Insurance Coverage: Herd Immunity for Insurers or is Coverage Spreading?

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When COVID-19 ground the world to a halt, policyholders and insurance-coverage attorneys made predictions about the effectiveness of insurance against coronavirus-related losses. And the outlook wasn’t great. This article...more

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