{"id":6047,"date":"2020-10-29T14:50:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/?p=6047"},"modified":"2020-10-29T14:50:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:50:13","slug":"legal-intelligencer-business-interruption-claims-in-the-covid-19-era-litigators-find-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-business-interruption-claims-in-the-covid-19-era-litigators-find-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: Business-Interruption Claims in the COVID-19 Era: Litigators Find Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-description\"><em>The courts have, in turn, opened their ears (and maybe their hearts, too) to the plight of American businesses that have suffered on a truly historic scale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Drawing of business meeting, participants wearing masks\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-1000x563.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting-213x120.png 213w, https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/COVID-Meeting.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\nIn the October 15, 2020 edition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\"><em>The Legal Intelligencer<\/em><\/a> Edward T. Kang, managing member of Kang Haggerty wrote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/2020\/10\/15\/business-interruption-claims-in-the-covid-19-era-litigators-find-hope\/\">Business-Interruption Claims in the COVID-19 Era: Litigators Find Hope.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the coronavirus itself may be novel, business interruption insurance lawsuits are not. Accordingly, in the initial wave of lawsuits arising from the pandemic, both business owners and courts throughout the country seemed trapped in a fixed mindset about this new type of case. Reeling from loss and damage, business owners assumed that since their businesses had been interrupted by COVID-19, their claims had merit. Courts, meanwhile, reading insurance policies narrowly, dismissed claims related to the virus for lack of tangible alteration to business property. In recent months, however, litigators have embraced more creative arguments to persuade the courts to hear their cases. 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