Florida Is Best Forum For COVID-19 Business Interruption Suits, Insured Tells JPMDL

Mealey's (April 27, 2020, 1:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A restaurant insured on April 24 filed a response in partial support of two motions asking the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to coordinate current and tag-along lawsuits seeking business interruption coverage for losses arising from governmental closure orders prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, arguing, however, that the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida is a better forum than the previously proposed Eastern District of Pennsylvania or the Northern District of Illinois (In re: COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Coverage Litigation, No. 2942, JPMDL)....