Broadway Theaters, Insurer Agree to End COVID-19 Business Loss Claims May 16, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson An owner of Broadway theaters and Pacific Indemnity Insurance Co. have voluntarily agreed to end their remaining litigation over COVID-19...
New Hampshire High Court Rejects Cat Urine Analogy in Overturning Hotels’ COVID Insurance Win May 15, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned a trial court that had found for a group of 23 hotels claiming...
Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Death Claim May 2, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove...
Virginia Workers’ Compensation Review Panel Clarifies COVID-19 Presumption May 2, 2023 Virginia’s statutory presumption that a COVID-19 disability of a first responder is work-related, which went into effect July 1, 2020,...
Court Reinstates Criminal Charges Against Veterans’ Home Officials Over COVID Policies May 1, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at...
Students Flunk Test for Class Action Over Covid Cutbacks by University April 10, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson A federal court has rejected a proposed class action by students against Boston University over alleged damages they suffered due...
University Faces Class-Action by Students Over COVID Campus Lockdown April 5, 2023 By Randall Chase A lawsuit against the University of Delaware over its campus shutdown and halting of in-person classes because of coronavirus can...
Families Sue Over Covid-19 Deaths at Chelsea Veterans Home March 3, 2023 The families of three residents of a veterans’ care facility in Massachusetts who died after contracting COVID-19 in the early...
Federal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Insurance Claim March 1, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and...
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Denial of ITT’s Covid-19 Insurance Claims February 24, 2023 Global corporation ITT has again been denied coverage under its “all-risk” policy for business costs and losses it sustained due...