January 04, 2022
The Second Circuit kept the streak alive for insurance carriers fighting coverage of business losses stemming from COVID-19 shutdown orders in a recent decision that upheld the dismissal of a New York art gallery's suit against a Hartford unit.
September 02, 2021
A Second Circuit panel clearly sided Thursday with a federal judge who found that COVID-19-related shutdowns in New York City were not a "direct physical loss" to an art gallery sufficient to trigger coverage under common business interruption insurance policy language.
May 10, 2021
An insurance unit of The Hartford urged the Second Circuit on Friday to reject a Manhattan gallery's bid to revive its suit seeking pandemic-related loss coverage, saying small business policyholders should rely on the federal government's help to lift them out of hardship instead of "the rewriting of insurance policies."
April 05, 2021
A New York City art gallery told the Second Circuit that a lower court erred in ruling that a unit of The Hartford isn't obligated to cover its pandemic-related losses, urging the appeals court to interpret what it called a contract ambiguity in the policyholder's favor.