December 16, 2024
The Philadelphia Eagles football team has lost its bid for federal court reconsideration of the dismissal of the team’s claim for insurance coverage for COVID-19 losses. The Eagles tossed a red flag in November after the federal district for Eastern …
December 16, 2024
Courts across the country have overwhelmingly ruled in favor of insurance carriers in claims disputes following the government-ordered closures of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The North Carolina Supreme Court last week bucked that trend, becoming just the second state …
May 28, 2024
Petcare, food and candy company Mars Inc. has lost its bid to revive its claims against Factory Mutual Insurance Co. for business interruption losses it incurred during the coronavirus pandemic. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the …
January 12, 2024
A federal appeals court has ruled that a Massachusetts hospital is entitled to coverage for losses due to COVID-19 under a health care endorsement in its policy from Continental Casualty Co. The First Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that Lawrence …
June 19, 2023
The owners of London’s ExCel conference center on Friday won a court ruling against insurers, including Royal & Sun Alliance, over pandemic-related losses, which its lawyers said could affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders. London International Exhibition Centre Plc took …
March 1, 2023
A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policy. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton of the federal court in Boston …
February 24, 2023
Global corporation ITT has again been denied coverage under its “all-risk” policy for business costs and losses it sustained due to Covid-19. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling by the federal district court for Connecticut that …
December 21, 2022
Rather than rule on them, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has allowed similar Covid-19 business insurance cases brought by owners of the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia 76ers sports teams against their insurers to proceed to limited discovery. U.S. District Judge …
December 19, 2022
The Maryland Supreme Court has backed an insurer in rejecting a luxury brand company’s claim that its all-risk commercial property insurance policy should cover its Covid-19 business losses. The ruling is in accord with Covid-19 rulings by high courts in …
December 1, 2022
A Pennsylvania appellate court ruled Wednesday that a dental practice was entitled to coverage for income lost because of the state’s COVID-19 shutdown, but a tavern was not. Policy language made all the difference in outcomes of the separate Superior …