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Law.com Litigation Trendspotter: Plaintiffs Get a Few More Glimmers of Hope in COVID-19 Business Interruption Cases

Since a major win back in August following a string of losses, policyholders have notched two more victories, signaling that the tides of COVID-19 business interruption litigation could still change.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Groundbreaking Opinion: COVID Sufficient to Trigger Business Interruption Coverage

In a resounding victory for policyholders a mere five months after the pandemic swept the United States, a federal court in Missouri has issued an opinion signaling that the levee has already broken.
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Rite Aid Entitled to Insurance Coverage in Defending Lawsuit Over Opioids, Del. Judge Rules

Rite Aid filed its case against Ace and other insurance companies in April 2019 in the court's Complex Commercial Litigation Division after Ace refused to cover any of Rite Aid's legal costs.
4 minute read

International Edition

DWF Nabs 13-Lawyer Team For New U.K. Base

The proposed base is set to be the first launched under the leadership of Sir Nigel Knowles.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Recent 11th Circuit Case May Impact COVID-19 Litigation

The restaurant Berries of the Grove in Miami boasts Belgian waffles, steak and Nutella pizza on its online menu. However, its name may now become center stage for arguments in COVID-19 litigation.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Presence of Coronavirus at a Business May Not Result in Property Damage

Understandably, businesses are looking at ways to stem the tide of mounting losses and are looking to their all-risk insurance policies for help. Most of these claims, however, have been or likely will be denied and, as a result, hundreds of businesses all over the country are filing lawsuits against their insurance carriers.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

PPP Loan Insurance: An Introduction and Overview

In their column on Corporate Insurance Law, Howard B. Epstein and Theodore A. Keyes are joined by Peter de Boisblanc to discuss insuring PPP funds, because businesses that received PPP funds face the risk of an SBA challenge to their eligibility to retain the funds without a repayment obligation.
10 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Court Refuses to Dismiss COVID-Related Business Interruption Claims

A New Jersey state court recently rejected an insurer's claim that COVID-related losses cannot qualify as covered losses.
5 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Aiming Straight for the Source, Client Sues His Lawyer's Insurance Carrier for Legal Malpractice

Client James Irwin sued his ex-attorneys and their insurer, Texas Lawyers Insurance Exchange, alleging the insurer's advice to "do nothing" on a legal malpractice claim caused him to miss the deadline under the statute of limitations.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Post-'Gallagher,' Lancaster Court Blocks Insurer's Denial of UIM Coverage

"Examining the unambiguous statutory language in conjunction with the household vehicle exclusion," Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas President Judge David Ashworth wrote, "the court finds that such policies operate to 'strip an insured of default UM/UIM coverage without requiring an insurer to demonstrate, at a bare minimum, that the insured was even aware that the exclusion was part of the policy.'"
3 minute read

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