July 31, 2025
A property insurer for numerous restaurants, bars and other small businesses owes no coverage for their consolidated business interruption claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic, an Illinois federal court ruled, looking to the laws of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota and Tennessee.
August 24, 2021
Society Insurance Co. has urged an Illinois federal judge to nix all bad faith claims against it in pandemic business-interruption multidistrict litigation, saying it never issued a blanket coverage denial over COVID-19 losses.
June 15, 2021
On the heels of a ruling in three bellwether cases in multidistrict litigation over Society Insurance Co.'s widespread denial of pandemic-related coverage, an Illinois federal judge on Tuesday refused the insurer's bid for an appeal concerning claims for business interruption coverage.
May 12, 2021
A group of Society Insurance Co. policyholders urged an Illinois federal judge Wednesday not to let their insurer cite a limited bellwether ruling to pursue dismissal of all civil authority and contamination claims in multidistrict litigation over its COVID-19 coverage refusals.
May 07, 2021
Society Insurance Co. has urged an Illinois federal judge to take a favorable bellwether ruling and toss all claims in the COVID-19 business interruption multidistrict litigation asking for civil authority and contamination coverage for businesses' pandemic-related losses.
March 24, 2021
Society Insurance Co. asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to allow it to immediately appeal his February refusal to dismiss policyholders' claims for COVID-19 business interruption losses, saying the question of whether a loss of use of property constitutes a "direct physical loss" is a pressing legal question that warrants quick appellate review.
February 23, 2021
An Illinois federal judge on Monday allowed a slew of restaurants, bars and theaters to pursue claims that Society Insurance Co. wrongfully refused to pay their COVID-19 business interruption losses, ruling in three bellwether cases in multidistrict litigation over the insurer's widespread denial of pandemic-related coverage.