{"id":1118,"date":"2021-11-20T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2022-01-10T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:48:59","slug":"the-inns-by-the-sea-california-court-of-appeal-decision-give-insurers-another-win-on-covid-19-business-interruption-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/11\/20\/the-inns-by-the-sea-california-court-of-appeal-decision-give-insurers-another-win-on-covid-19-business-interruption-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inns by the Sea California Court of Appeal Decision Give Insurers Another Win on COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first California state appellate decision on COVID-19 Business Interruption coverage is now in the books, and it\u2019s one more victory for insurers.\u00a0 In\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Inns by the Sea\u00a0<\/em><em>v. California Mutual Ins. Co.<\/em>, Case No. D079036 (Cal. Ct. App. 4th Dist., Div. 1, Nov. 15, 2021), the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District found there was no coverage, notwithstanding the absence of a virus exclusion in the relevant policy.\u00a0 The court\u2019s 36-page opinion provides a thorough and careful analysis of several important COVID-19-related business interruption issues.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorneys\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/maxhstern.html\">Max H. Stern<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/holdenbenon.html\">Holden Benon<\/a>, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2021\/11\/19\/yet-another-win-for-insurers-on-covid-19-business-interruption-claims-the-inns-by-the-sea-california-court-of-appeal-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the\u00a0<em>Duane Morris Insurance Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first California state appellate decision on COVID-19 Business Interruption coverage is now in the books, and it\u2019s one more victory for insurers.\u00a0 In\u00a0The\u00a0Inns by the Sea\u00a0v. California Mutual Ins. Co., Case No. D079036 (Cal. Ct. App. 4th Dist., Div. 1, Nov. 15, 2021), the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District found there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/11\/20\/the-inns-by-the-sea-california-court-of-appeal-decision-give-insurers-another-win-on-covid-19-business-interruption-claims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Inns by the Sea California Court of Appeal Decision Give Insurers Another Win on COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1205,551,984],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-appeal","tag-business-interruption-insurance","tag-insurance-and-reinsurance"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}