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 …
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 …
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’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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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, …
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 …
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 …
