{"id":799,"date":"2020-08-03T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=799"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:30:11","slug":"oral-argument-on-potential-consolidation-of-business-interruption-coverage-cases-related-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/08\/03\/oral-argument-on-potential-consolidation-of-business-interruption-coverage-cases-related-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Argument on Potential Consolidation of Business Interruption Coverage Cases Related to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (the Panel) heard oral argument of extraordinary length on the potential consolidation of all the federal cases involving business interruption coverage relating to COVID-19 and\/or the COVID-19 shut-down orders.\u00a0 There are some 449 such federal cases, approximately 200 of which are putative class actions.<\/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\/07\/31\/lengthy-oral-argument-on-potential-consolidation-of-business-interruption-coverage-cases-related-to-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Insurance Law Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 30, the Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation (the Panel) heard oral argument of extraordinary length on the potential consolidation of all the federal cases involving business interruption coverage relating to COVID-19 and\/or the COVID-19 shut-down orders.\u00a0 There are some 449 such federal cases, approximately 200 of which are putative class actions. To read &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/08\/03\/oral-argument-on-potential-consolidation-of-business-interruption-coverage-cases-related-to-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oral Argument on Potential Consolidation of Business Interruption Coverage Cases Related to COVID-19&#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":[123,926,927,984,925,600],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-interruption","tag-business-interruption-coverage","tag-consolidation","tag-insurance-and-reinsurance","tag-judicial-panel-on-multi-district-litigation","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\/799","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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}