Legal Sea Foods loses court fight for COVID insurance coverage
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
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A federal judge in Boston on Monday threw out Legal Sea Foods’ lawsuit demanding insurance coverage for financial losses stemming from coronavirus-related government restrictions, dealing a blow to similar efforts by Massachusetts businesses hurt by the pandemic.
The ruling is one of the first in Massachusetts courts related to business interruption coverage for COVID-19 restrictions. Businesses began bringing suit against their insurance providers last spring after the insurers refused to cover losses caused by state and local operating limits. The insurance industry has maintained that most business interruption policies do not apply to something like the pandemic.
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Unpaid Legal Sea Foods vendor unhappy with the way story was told
Updated March 2, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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The second-floor patio at the three-story Legal Sea Foods location at Liberty Wharf is seen in this file photo.Jessey Dearing for The Boston Globe
Itâs disappointing that you chose to publish Larry Edelmanâs commentary regarding the unpaid vendors left behind by Roger Berkowitz with the sale of Legal Sea Foods (âLegalâs vendors holding bag, but itâs complicated,â Page A1, Feb. 18). Although Edelman begins with a quote from an unnamed supplier, the remainder of his commentary mentions very little about those who were actually left holding unpaid invoices. Ultimately, it reads more like a puff piece attempting to soften Berkowitzâs recent public-relations knocks.
Jan 14, 2021
In August, chef Dan Barber announced plans to step down from his kitchen duties and pivot his Grand Award–winning Blue Hill at Stone Barns into a chef-in-residence concept. That came to fruition this week, with Jan. 13 marking the start of the first season of chef residencies at the farm and restaurant in Pocantico Hills, N.Y.
For five weeks, each chef will lead the kitchen and offer their spin on regional cuisines using produce from Stone Barns Center and other surrounding farms. “Each of these chefs will explore the intersection of cooking and farming but also culture, identity, community and health,” Barber wrote in a statement. “A vision for food that is both physical and philosophical, and so much greater than the sum of its parts.”
Legal Sea Foods CEO Looks To Plan B After Company s Sale
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Roger Berkowitz on Morning Edition 12-22-20
Legal Sea Foods has become almost as synonymous with New England as the lobsters they serve â so the Massachusetts restaurant chain made headlines this week when it announced its sale to Medford-based PPX Hospitality Group, which also owns Smith & Wollensky and three Strega locations. Legal Sea Foods CEO Roger Berkowitz joined Joe Mathieu on GBH s
Morning Edition to discuss the sale, and how the pandemic has impacted the restaurant industry. You know, life throws curveballs at you. It s really unpredictable, Berkowitz said of the sale, which comes just a year after the restaraunt chain had expanded its high-end seafood offerings. What I ve learned over the years [is] you always have to have I guess a plan B in place, or options in terms of what you do. If you re too myopic, you leave yourself open to things you can t recover from.
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