{"id":404,"date":"2020-05-28T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=404"},"modified":"2022-06-23T20:39:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T00:39:35","slug":"are-you-prepared-for-post-covid-19-litigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/are-you-prepared-for-post-covid-19-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you prepared for Post COVID-19 Litigation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Judge-1024x576-1.png\" alt=\"Female judge holding notebook and gavel\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>With Complaints Rapidly Increasing across the U.S., Now is the time to act<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As of May 26, 2020, 2,278 complaints have been filed nationwide over the global pandemic COVID-19 according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huntonak.com\/en\/covid-19-tracker.html\">COVID-19 Complaint Tracker<\/a> developed by lawyers at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. While the largest amount of these complaints deal with prison conditions and civil rights , the next highest areas of litigation involve insurance disputes, consumer disputes, labor and employment issues \u00a0and contract disputes. Claims regarding employment, contracts and force majeure provisions, or clauses contained in contracts which excuse performance due to natural destructive acts also known as \u201cacts of God,\u201d are on the rise. These complaints will continue to be filed as the effects of COVID-19 continue to be felt in ever-changing ways. Many of these complaints have been filed in jurisdictions where Kang Haggerty regularly practices\u2014namely COVID-19 hot spots New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/are-you-prepared-for-post-covid-19-litigation\/#more-404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Complaints Rapidly Increasing across the U.S., Now is the time to act As of May 26, 2020, 2,278 complaints have been filed nationwide over the global pandemic COVID-19 according to the COVID-19 Complaint Tracker developed by lawyers at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP. 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