Did A Recent Court Ruling Doom COVID Biz Interruption MDL? (Reuters)

Did A Recent Court Ruling Doom COVID Biz Interruption MDL?

  Thursday, December 23rd, 2021 Source: Reuters

Nearly 60 lawsuits against Society Insurance suffered a fatal blow this month when a federal appeals court tossed pandemic-related claims for business-income interruption benefits against four other insurance companies, Society’s lawyers at Crowell & Moring and Purcell & Wardrope said in a Monday-night filing in federal court in Chicago.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers at McGuire Woods and four other firms quickly fired back, telling U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang that decisions of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals were irrelevant to the multidistrict litigation (MDL) against Society because they involved different policies, facts and a ‘misguided’ application of Illinois law.

‘Respectfully, the Seventh Circuit threw caution to the wind’ by making a ‘premature … guess’ about how the Illinois Supreme Court could interpret key policy terms, Shelby Guilbert of McGuire Woods wrote for the MDL plaintiffs.

Guilbert and co-lead counsel - Adam Levitt of DiCello Levitt Gutzler, W. Mark Lanier of Lanier Law Firm, Timothy Burns of Burns Bowen Bair, and Shannon McNulty of Clifford Law Offices – did not respond to requests for comment.

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