{"id":134,"date":"2020-03-19T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=134"},"modified":"2020-09-01T15:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:41:01","slug":"life-interrupted-coronavirus-covid-19-and-insurance-coverage-for-business-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/19\/life-interrupted-coronavirus-covid-19-and-insurance-coverage-for-business-interruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Interrupted: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Insurance Coverage for Business Interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/maxhstern.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max H. Stern<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jessicaelalonde.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jessica E. La Londe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A key issue that many insurance companies will face in the upcoming weeks and months is whether their policies provide coverage for policyholders\u2019 business interruption losses from the COVID-19 crisis.\u00a0 This is not merely an academic question: the first coverage case on this issue was filed in Louisiana this week (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Blog-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cajun Conti, LLC, et al. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd\u2019s London, et al.<\/a><\/em>) and legislatures are already considering legislation that may significantly impact the insurance industry (<em>see<\/em>\u00a0New Jersey\u2019s proposed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Blog-NJ-Legislation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation<\/a>\u00a0on insurance coverage for COVID-19 business interruption claims and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/03\/Blog-Congress-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a>\u00a0from members of Congress to insurer trade groups encouraging the acceptance of business interruption coverage for COVID-19 losses).<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2020\/03\/19\/life-interrupted-coronavirus-covid-19-and-insurance-coverage-for-business-interruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Insurance Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Max H. Stern and Jessica E. La Londe A key issue that many insurance companies will face in the upcoming weeks and months is whether their policies provide coverage for policyholders\u2019 business interruption losses from the COVID-19 crisis.\u00a0 This is not merely an academic question: the first coverage case on this issue was filed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/03\/19\/life-interrupted-coronavirus-covid-19-and-insurance-coverage-for-business-interruption\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Interrupted: Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Insurance Coverage for Business Interruption&#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":[123,984,122,111,103],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-interruption","tag-insurance-and-reinsurance","tag-insurance-coverage","tag-insurance-law","tag-new-jersey"],"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\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}