Illinois Panel Reverses Class Certification In Restaurant’s COVID-19 Coverage Suit

(March 31, 2022, 12:43 PM EDT) -- ELGIN, Ill. — Reversing and remanding a lower court’s order granting class certification, an Illinois appeals panel on March 30 held that a restaurant failed to allege a valid claim for contamination coverage under its commercial property insurance policy and, therefore, its declaratory judgment and bad faith lawsuit arising from the coronavirus pandemic may not proceed as a class action....