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Broadway Theaters, Insurer Agree to End COVID-19 Business Loss Claims

An owner of Broadway theaters and Pacific Indemnity Insurance Co. have voluntarily agreed to end their remaining litigation over COVID-19 coverage claims. Under the stipulation filed May 11, each party will bear its own attorneys’ fees and other costs. The …

New Hampshire High Court Rejects Cat Urine Analogy in Overturning Hotels’ COVID Insurance Win

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned a trial court that had found for a group of 23 hotels claiming they were entitled to insurance payments for business interruption losses caused by contamination of their properties by COVID-19. Agreeing with …

Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Death Claim

The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove that the death was work-related. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York on May 1 upheld the …

Virginia Workers’ Compensation Review Panel Clarifies COVID-19 Presumption

Virginia’s statutory presumption that a COVID-19 disability of a first responder is work-related, which went into effect July 1, 2020, does not require that the employee be diagnosed with COVID-19 on or after that date, a state review panel has …

Court Reinstates Criminal Charges Against Veterans’ Home Officials Over COVID Policies

Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at a veterans’ home. Nearly 80 veterans died at the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke after contracting the coronavirus in one of …

Students Flunk Test for Class Action Over Covid Cutbacks by University

A federal court has rejected a proposed class action by students against Boston University over alleged damages they suffered due to cutbacks by the school during the Covid-19 pandemic. The students sought a refund of payments they made for tuition …

University Faces Class-Action by Students Over COVID Campus Lockdown

A lawsuit against the University of Delaware over its campus shutdown and halting of in-person classes because of coronavirus can proceed as a class action on behalf of thousands of students who were enrolled and paid tuition in spring 2020, …

Families Sue Over Covid-19 Deaths at Chelsea Veterans Home

The families of three residents of a veterans’ care facility in Massachusetts who died after contracting COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic say in federal lawsuit that the deaths were “premature and preventable” and the result of “unsanitary, …

Federal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Insurance Claim

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 …

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Denial of ITT’s Covid-19 Insurance Claims

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 …