In a ruling against an upscale restaurant chain, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has followed the recipe the state's high court set forth in 2022 in ruling
Property insurers faced with COVID-19 related claims for business income losses can take comfort in the recent trend of most appellate courts to find in favor of insurers that have.
Where a plaintiff operator of restaurants sought coverage under a commercial property insurance policy for losses that it claimed to have suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, a judgment dismissing the complaint should be affirmed in light of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Verveine Corp. v. Strathmore Insurance Co., 184 N.E.3d 1266 (Mass. 2022).