{"id":607,"date":"2020-05-18T19:37:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T23:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:28:07","slug":"insurance-industry-prevails-in-decision-on-covid-losses-for-business-interruption-before-the-pennsylvania-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/18\/insurance-industry-prevails-in-decision-on-covid-losses-for-business-interruption-before-the-pennsylvania-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance Industry Prevails in Decision on COVID Losses for Business Interruption Before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the bellwether case of\u00a0<em>Joseph Tambellini, Inc. v. Erie Insurance Exchange<\/em>, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was petitioned under its King\u2019s Bench powers to assume plenary jurisdiction of an insurance coverage dispute that had been filed in the Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The high court was asked to decide critical legal issues that would have impacted thousands of other insurance claims that might arise in the future from the COVID-19 pandemic. Duane Morris was retained by insurer trade associations, including APCIA, NAMIC, PAMIC, and the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania (the \u201cInsurance Industry Amici\u201d), to oppose this extraordinary petition.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/damonnvocke.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Damon Vocke<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/insurancelaw\/2020\/05\/18\/duane-morris-helps-insurance-industry-to-a-major-win-on-covid-losses-for-business-interruption-before-the-pennsylvania-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Insurance Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the bellwether case of\u00a0Joseph Tambellini, Inc. v. Erie Insurance Exchange, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was petitioned under its King\u2019s Bench powers to assume plenary jurisdiction of an insurance coverage dispute that had been filed in the Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 The high court was asked to decide critical legal issues that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/05\/18\/insurance-industry-prevails-in-decision-on-covid-losses-for-business-interruption-before-the-pennsylvania-supreme-court\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insurance Industry Prevails in Decision on COVID Losses for Business Interruption Before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court&#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":[551,984,122,795],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-interruption-insurance","tag-insurance-and-reinsurance","tag-insurance-coverage","tag-kings-bench-powers"],"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\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}