Recently, an Illinois federal judge ruled that where government shutdown orders due to COVID-19 in different states impacted one insured, that insured suffered separate occurrences in each effected state. Dental Experts, LLC v. Massachusetts Bay Ins. Co., No. 20 C 5887, 2022 WL 2528104 (N.D. Ill. July 7, 2022).

Dental Experts LLC and other affiliated dental practices in 10 states were forced to stop nonessential operations under various government orders connected to COVID-19.

Reprinted courtesy of Adriana A. Perez, Hunton Andrews Kurth and Michael S. Levine, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Ms. Perez may be contacted at pereza@HuntonAK.com
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