December 10, 2021
An Illinois dental practice and a hotel operator are among a group of policyholders not entitled to coverage for pandemic losses, the Seventh Circuit said in a major ruling from what is now the fifth appeals court to side with insurers in a pandemic coverage suit.
September 10, 2021
A Ritz-Carlton in Texas, a Quality Inn in Illinois and a handful of other businesses urged a Seventh Circuit panel Friday to undo a slate of lower court rulings axing their claims that insurers wrongfully denied coverage for their losses stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing government shutdown orders.
June 03, 2021
West Bend Mutual Insurance Co. has urged the Seventh Circuit to reject an Illinois bar and a jewelry store's bid for another chance in their coronavirus business interruption suit, arguing a virus exclusion clearly precludes coverage for all pandemic-related losses.
May 04, 2021
An Illinois bar and a jewelry store have urged the Seventh Circuit to reverse a lower court's finding that their insurance policies' virus exclusion bars coverage for pandemic-related losses, arguing that the district court wrongly held that it was COVID-19 instead of government orders that caused their losses.