December 15, 2020
A California magistrate judge has thrown out a hair salon's suit for coverage of business interruption losses stemming from the COVID-19 shutdown, saying a clear and unambiguous exclusion for losses resulting from a virus bars any recovery.
October 28, 2020
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is urging a California federal court to drop it from a waxing salon's COVID-19-related loss suit, arguing it was just the holding company of the insurer that issued the policy and therefore has no legal liability toward the salon whatsoever.
September 24, 2020
A California magistrate judge said a waxing salon's theory that its income loss was caused by state closure orders instead of COVID-19 is "nonsense," freeing Sentinel Insurance Co. and Hartford Financial Services Group from their alleged coverage duty.