UK Business Interruption + Insurers Balk + Joint Employer Rule + Courts Take Action + Premises Liability Concerns

ens of thousands of hotels and hospitality businesses in the United Kingdom might be saved from closure and distressed sales due to a High Court ruling concerning business-interruption insurance clauses, according to sources.

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UK Court Ruling on Business Interruption Favors Hotels

September 28, 2020 via Hotel News Now

Tens of thousands of hotels and hospitality businesses in the United Kingdom might be saved from closure and distressed sales due to a High Court ruling concerning business-interruption insurance clauses, according to sources.

The 15 September decision in a case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority and interveners—a legal term for third parties allowed to enter ongoing litigation—Hospitality Insurance Group Action and Hiscox Action Group ruled wording in policies of 16 insurance companies was not sufficient to avoid paying out business-interruption payments.

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Business Interruption: Insurers Balk at Paying Claims

September 10, 2020 via CFO

Legal experts who specialize in insurance, however, are taking to court, defending their corporate clients’ policies and claims as not only valid and relevant but necessary to the health of the economy.

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Court Strikes Down Recent Joint Employer Rule

September 10, 2020 via Conn Maciel Carey

On September 8, 2020, a New York federal judge struck down most of a U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") rule that had narrowed the definition of "joint employer" by limiting when multiple businesses would be liable to the same worker under federal wage and hour law.

Courts Begin to Take Action on Business Interruption Claims as More Lawsuits are Filed

September 10, 2020 via Conn Maciel Carey

The insurance industry, however, has argued that business interruption insurance was never meant to cover a universal catastrophe, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a letter to Congress. But the lawsuits keep coming.

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Premises Liability Concerns as Hotels Re-Open in the Wake of COVID-19

August 31, 2020 via Rumberger Kirk

COVID-19 has ravaged the economy, with the hospitality industry feeling especially compromised. Fear of community spread of the virus through travel and group events has dramatically reduced occupancy rates across the country. As travel resumes, hotel ownership and management are left with various and continually evolving premises liability concerns.

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