As COVID-19 halts commercial activity throughout the United States, states have jumped into action to preserve insurance coverage for small businesses. New Jersey led the way by proposing legislation requiring property policies to cover business interruption losses resulting from COVID-19:
“[n]otwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, every policy
As COVID-19 leads to event cancellations worldwide, the insurance market is scrambling to minimize its financial exposure to event cancellation claims. Although we have seen event policies with COVID-19 exclusions and others with contamination exclusions that insurers will cite to deny coverage, many event cancellation policies lack these problematic exclusions. But insurers are turning to