Duane Morris Helps Insurance Industry to a Major Win on COVID Losses for...
By Damon N. Vocke In the bellwether case of Joseph Tambellini, Inc. v. Erie Insurance Exchange, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was petitioned under its King’s Bench powers to assume plenary...
View ArticleInsurer Seeks Declaration that Insured not Entitled to Coverage for...
by: Gina Foran This week, U.S. Specialty Insurance Company (“USSIC”) filed a declaratory relief action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas seeking a judicial declaration that...
View ArticleBusiness Interruption Insurance, COVID-19 and Direct Physical Damage under...
By Damon Vocke and David T. McTaggart To date, approximately 150 business-interruption insurance coverage lawsuits have been filed in federal courts arising from COVID-19 and related government-ordered...
View ArticleBid to Invalidate Virus Exclusion in Pennsylvania Federal Court
Berkshire Hathaway and one of its units on Monday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a restaurant’s suit seeking insurance coverage for losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that a...
View ArticleLengthy Oral Argument on Potential Consolidation of Business Interruption...
By Damon Vocke On July 30, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (the Panel) heard oral argument of extraordinary length on the potential consolidation of all the federal cases involving...
View ArticlePanel Rejects Consolidation Of All Federal Business Interruption Cases
By Damon Vocke On July 31, the seven-member Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (JPML) heard oral argument of extraordinary length on the potential consolidation of all federal cases involving...
View ArticleYet Another Win for Insurers on COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims: The...
By Max H. Stern and Holden Benon The first California state appellate decision on COVID-19 Business Interruption coverage is now in the books, and it’s one more victory for insurers. In The Inns by...
View ArticleCarriers Enjoy Unanimous Success in Recent Wave of COVID-19 Business...
By: Max H. Stern & Holden Benon Recently, we began to see real decisions being made by the appellate courts on COVID-19 Business Interruption issues. The U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals have...
View ArticleCalifornia’s Highest Court Rejects Inns-by-the-Sea’s Petition for Review
By Max H. Stern and Holden Benon This week, the California Supreme Court declined to hear the Policyholder’s appeal of the Court of Appeal’s decision in The Inns by the Sea v. California Mutual Ins....
View ArticleCalifornia Court of Appeal Disposes of COVID-19 Coverage Dispute After...
By Max H. Stern and Holden Benon Late last week, the California Court of Appeal issued another COVID-19 business interruption decision reminding us that creative arguments do not win the day for...
View ArticleInsurers Prevail in California Supreme Court on COVID-19 Business...
By Todd Norris, Max Stern, Brian Kelly, Terrance Evans and Jessica La Londe. Earlier today, the Supreme Court of California issued a long-awaited opinion answering an insurance coverage question that...
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