Policyholders With Endorsements for Diseases Survive Motions to Dismiss COVID-19 Claims
While insurers continue to win four out of five cases in early rounds, in the past month two property owners with policies that contained endorsements specifically providing coverage for diseases survived motions to dismiss their COVID-19 business interruption claims.
On Thursday, the Stark County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio denied State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the owners of Sylvester’s North End Italian Grille in North Canton seeking damages for lost income after being forced to close its dining room because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Judge Taryn L. Heath cited an endorsement in the policy that specifically added coverage for income lost because of “contagious or infectious disease.”
What you need to know about the antitrust suits against Facebook
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorneys General of 47 states as well as the District of Columbia filed antitrust lawsuits against Facebook. Antitrust expert Herbert Hovenkamp, The James G. Dinan University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School discusses the filings in a Q&A.
According to Hovenkamp, both lawsuits seek to sue Facebook under the antitrust laws, and allege that recent Facebook acquisitions eliminate competition and make it harder for competitors to grow, focussing principally on Instagram and WhatsApp. While the acquisitions are one part of the complaint, the other issue addresses the exclusive agreements that Facebook made with various developers and creators of applications that are designed to integrate with Facebook.
The pardons of the ex-contractors involved in the killings of Iraqi civilians drew rebukes from civil rights groups in particular. The executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy group, called it an unconscionable act of moral insanity.
The four ex-contractors worked for Blackwater, a firm founded by Erik Prince, one of Trump s allies and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos The idea of the pardon power is really to address injustice and to either right wrongs or show mercy when that’s appropriate, said Noah Bookbinder, executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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