In the first of what will likely be an exponentially growing tide of businesses turning to insurance coverage for financial relief from the economic downturn caused by the global coronavirus pandemic and response, on March 17, 2020, a restaurant filed a lawsuit seeking business interruption insurance coverage for alleged losses caused by executive orders issued by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards. In Cajun Conti LLC, et al. v. Certain Underwriters, et al.<\/i>, the plaintiff-restaurant (\u201cOceana Grill\u201d) filed its lawsuit seeking coverage under an alleged \u201call risks\u201d commercial property insurance policy that Oceana Grill purchased from the defendant-insurer. Oceana Grill alleges that the policy provides \u201cproperty, business personal property, business income and extra expense, and ordinance or law coverage\u201d caused by \u201call risks\u201d unless specifically excluded (unlike a \u201cspecified\u201d or \u201cnamed\u201d \u201cperils\u201d policy, which provides coverage for loss resulting from specific, named risks).<\/p>\n
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