Tyrone R. Childress, Tara Kowalski, Peter Laun and Jason Lissy | Jones Day In Short The Situation: Business interruption and other losses due to the continued global spread of COVID-19 are projected to total in the billions of dollars. The Result: In an effort to discourage commercial policyholders from pursuing their COVID-19-related business interruption claims, the insurance… Continue reading Policyholders Should Anticipate And Prepare To Defeat Insurer COVID-19 Coverage Denials
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COVID-19 and Insurance Coverage: A Follow-Up Look at Recent Developments
Thomas Bentz, Jr. and Joseph Guay | Holland & Knight The ongoing adjustments from the COVID-19 pandemic continue to affect businesses in a variety of ways. In the days since Holland & Knight’s previous alert on the potential impact that the crisis could have on a wide range of insurance coverages (see “A Look at… Continue reading COVID-19 and Insurance Coverage: A Follow-Up Look at Recent Developments
10 Tips To Preserve Insurance Coverage For COVID-19 Claims
Kellie Nelson Fetter, Matthew Heketh, Craig Morgan, Chris Mosley, William Reed and Brooke Yates | Sherman & Howard In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, many businesses hope (and appropriately so) that insurance—whether business interruption, event cancellation, D&O or otherwise—will step in and pay for some of those losses. However, the insurance landscape is littered… Continue reading 10 Tips To Preserve Insurance Coverage For COVID-19 Claims
To Be Or Not To Be An Additional Insured?
Smith Gambrell & Russell It is the question many in the industry have asked in light of the 2018 New York Court of Appeals decision in the Gilbane case. (Gilbane Bldg. Co./TDX Constr. Corp., et al. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., et al., 31 N.Y. 3d 131 (2018)). In Gilbane the court held that a party was… Continue reading To Be Or Not To Be An Additional Insured?
CGL Coverage and Coronavirus: Is Causing Exposure an “Occurrence”?
Randy Maniloff and Margo Meta | White and Williams There is only one thing that can be said for sure about the extent of consequences — human and economic — of the new coronavirus outbreak. Nobody knows. But, as things stand now, minor, and even moderate, have left the barn. History shows that, in the… Continue reading CGL Coverage and Coronavirus: Is Causing Exposure an “Occurrence”?