Restaurant Owner Asks N.Y. High Court To Review Dismissal Of COVID-19 Coverage Suit

Mealey's (July 25, 2022, 6:37 PM EDT) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — The owner and operator of numerous restaurants on July 12 moved in the New York Court of Appeals for leave to appeal the First Department New York Supreme Court Appellate Division’s ruling that affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of its commercial property coverage lawsuit arising from an alleged tens of millions of dollars in revenue loss prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the issue on appeal “is indisputably of statewide, public importance, representing one of the most consequential insurance law questions to arise under New York law in decades.”...