{"id":776,"date":"2020-07-14T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=776"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:30:26","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-fights-bid-to-invalidate-virus-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/07\/14\/berkshire-hathaway-fights-bid-to-invalidate-virus-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway Fights Bid To Invalidate Virus Exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway\u00a0and one of its units on Monday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a restaurant&#8217;s suit seeking insurance coverage for losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that a virus exclusion &#8220;plainly applies&#8221; to the restaurant&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>Berkshire Hathaway and National Fire are represented by\u00a0<a title=\"Robert L. Byer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/robertlbyer.html\">Robert L. Byer<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Julie S. Greenberg\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/juliesgreenberg.html\">Julie S. Greenberg<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Damon N. Vocke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/damonnvocke.html\">Damon N. Vocke<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Duane Morris LLP.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this article, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/articles\/1291693?e_id=7b5f40a4-dd07-4886-a145-daa03829b95c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Law360<\/em> website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway\u00a0and one of its units on Monday urged a Pennsylvania federal court to toss a restaurant&#8217;s suit seeking insurance coverage for losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that a virus exclusion &#8220;plainly applies&#8221; to the restaurant&#8217;s claims. Berkshire Hathaway and National Fire are represented by\u00a0Robert L. Byer,\u00a0Julie S. Greenberg\u00a0and\u00a0Damon N. Vocke\u00a0of\u00a0Duane Morris LLP. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/07\/14\/berkshire-hathaway-fights-bid-to-invalidate-virus-exclusion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Berkshire Hathaway Fights Bid To Invalidate Virus Exclusion&#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":[984,122,600,902],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-insurance-and-reinsurance","tag-insurance-coverage","tag-litigation","tag-virus-exclusion"],"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\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}