7th Circuit:  Recent Decisions Control Outcome Of Jeweler’s Coronavirus Coverage Suit

Mealey's (June 8, 2022, 10:43 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 3 affirmed a lower federal court’s dismissal of a Chicago jeweler’s lawsuit seeking commercial property coverage for its lost income and extra expenses arising from the coronavirus pandemic, finding that it “has repeatedly held that ‘direct physical loss’ means tangible, physical alteration to property, not merely loss of use.”...