November 14, 2022
West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. prevailed over a southern Illinois salon's bid for COVID-19-related coverage after a federal court reconsidered the insurer's motion to dismiss in light of two Seventh Circuit decisions.
August 29, 2022
West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. asked a federal court Friday to reconsider its decision greenlighting an Illinois hair salon's COVID-19 pandemic business interruption suit, arguing that two recent Seventh Circuit rulings doom the salon's claims.
May 11, 2021
An Illinois federal judge has given the green light to a hair salon's effort to get pandemic-related loss coverage from its insurer, saying that West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. could not demonstrate that the COVID-19 virus never entered the salon's property.