Louisiana Covid BI ruling seen as outlier, NJ court reverses similar decision
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Louisiana Covid BI ruling seen as outlier, NJ court reverses similar decision

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The ruling by a Louisiana appeals court in favor of a New Orleans restaurant seeking business interruption coverage for forced closures under the state’s Covid lockdown measures counters every appellate ruling on the issue and is unlikely to impact similar cases in other states, sources said.

The Louisiana case came to light as the state’s Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal ruled in a 3-2 split decision last week that the language in policies written for restaurant Oceana Grill was “ambiguous”, and that Covid-19 should be...

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