{"id":583,"date":"2020-05-13T16:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T20:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=583"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:28:22","slug":"congressional-efforts-to-compel-coronavirus-business-interruption-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/13\/congressional-efforts-to-compel-coronavirus-business-interruption-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Efforts to Compel Coronavirus Business Interruption Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DMBdyTxt\">We previously wrote about the growing number of lawsuits by insureds seeking business interruption insurance coverage for business losses in response to the novel coronavirus (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/heating_up_new_orleans_based_oceana_grill_seeks_insurance_coverage_coronavirus_caused_0320.html\">here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2020\/04\/21\/coronavirus-business-interruption-litigation-ramping-up-to-include-several-class-action-suits-against-single-insurers\/\">here<\/a>), and<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2020\/03\/24\/statutes-compelling-coronavirus-business-interruption-insurance-should-face-constitutional-constraints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0the constraints that state and federal governments should face were they to compel such coverage<\/a>. We also previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2020\/03\/24\/statutes-compelling-coronavirus-business-interruption-insurance-should-face-constitutional-constraints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">detailed<\/a> nationwide efforts aimed at enacting legislation compelling business interruption and contingent business interruption insurance for COVID-19 losses.\u00a0As of the date of this update, eight states have proposed a number of bills relating to business interruption insurance, and Congress has also waded in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DMBdyTxt\"><span id=\"more-334\"><\/span>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/dominicacanderson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dominica C. Anderson<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/philiprmatthews.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philip R. Matthews<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/danielbheidtke.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel B. Heidtke<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2020\/05\/13\/an-update-on-congressional-efforts-to-compel-coronavirus-business-interruption-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Insurance Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We previously wrote about the growing number of lawsuits by insureds seeking business interruption insurance coverage for business losses in response to the novel coronavirus (here\u00a0and\u00a0here), and\u00a0the constraints that state and federal governments should face were they to compel such coverage. We also previously\u00a0detailed nationwide efforts aimed at enacting legislation compelling business interruption and contingent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/13\/congressional-efforts-to-compel-coronavirus-business-interruption-insurance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congressional Efforts to Compel Coronavirus Business Interruption Insurance&#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":[569,551,984,111,600],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-continuity-losses","tag-business-interruption-insurance","tag-insurance-and-reinsurance","tag-insurance-law","tag-litigation"],"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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}