Illinois Panel Affirms Rulings In Favor Of Insurer, Agent In COVID-19 Suit

(March 23, 2023, 1:44 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals court panel on March 22 affirmed a trial court’s grant of a commercial property insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and an insurance agent’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by dental insureds, finding that the insureds did not incur “direct physical loss of or damage to” their properties to trigger coverage for their claimed business losses arising from their suspension of elective dental procedures during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic....