Business Owners Say Coverage Owed For Losses Stemming From Coronavirus Shutdown

Mealey's (March 31, 2020, 2:07 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A group of restaurant and movie theater owners and operators claim in a March 27 complaint filed in Illinois federal court that their insurer breached its contracts and acted in bad faith in denying the insureds’ claims for business interruption losses sustained as a result of the state-ordered shutdown of nonessential businesses in Illinois in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic (Big Onion Tavern Group LLC et al., v. Society Insurance Inc., No. 20-2005, N.D. Ill.)....