Insurance Firms Gain Early Lead in Coronavirus Legal Fight With Businesses

9/1/2020

Courts have only just begun to work through more than 1,000 shutdown-related business-interruption coverage disputes.

Reiser Law's Covid-19 Business Interruption lawsuit was featured in today's Wall Street Journal.

"To clear this hurdle, hotel company The Inns by the Sea asserts in its lawsuit in Monterey County, Calif., that the coronavirus is a “hazardous physical substance that permeates the air and sticks to surfaces, and causes both physical loss of and damage to property,” Michael Reiser, one of the hotelier’s lawyers, said in an interview.

Mr. Reiser, the lawyer in the California case, is hoping for a quick response from the appellate court.

“Thousands of entrepreneurs and small-business owners are facing permanent closure or bankruptcy based on dubious coverage denials,” he said.

Leslie Scism
The Wall Street Journal