R.I. Judge: Insured States Civil Authority Coverage Claim In Coronavirus Dispute

(June 8, 2021, 2:11 PM EDT) -- PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island judge on June 4 granted in part and denied in part an insurer’s motion to dismiss a nightclub operator insured’s coronavirus coverage dispute, finding that the insured sufficiently stated a claim for civil authority coverage and that the insurer has failed to satisfy its burden of proving that the virus exclusion applied to bar coverage for the insured’s civil authority coverage claim....