Two Miami attorneys suing Chubb for rejecting business interruption claims following COVID-19 government shutdown orders welcome a federal judicial panel’s refusal to consolidate hundreds of lawsuits against insurance companies.

The order issued Wednesday by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation concluded the cases shared “only a superficial commonality” and no common defendant. In fact, the cases involve hundreds of plaintiffs, “many with disparate views of the litigation,” and more than 100 insurers with “different insurance policies with different coverages, conditions, exclusions, and policy language, purchased by different businesses in different industries located in different states.”

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