Panel:  Restaurants Allege Communicable Disease Event, Direct Physical Loss, Damage

(June 23, 2023, 9:48 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appeals panel held June 22 that restaurant insureds sufficiently asserted the existence of a covered communicable disease event and direct physical loss or damage under their property insurance policy, reversing a lower court’s judgment against the insureds in their breach of contract and bad faith coverage lawsuit arising from the COVID-19 pandemic....