In their suit, the business owners claimed that coronavirus caused a direct “physical loss or direct physical damage to their premises.” As Bough stated later, he based his ruling not on whether financial losses were caused by shutdowns and social distancing measures, but whether COVID-19 particles attached to and damaged the property, thereby making the premises “unsafe and unusable.”
With this ruling, the insurance company will be forced to pay the claims made by these businesses and others related to financial losses caused by the coronavirus.
While this court decision will only apply to those businesses covered by The Cincinnati Insurance Company, it gives insight as to the future outlook of the series of pending business disruption-related lawsuits.
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