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Your Houston Business and Your Livelihood During the COVID-19 Crisis Complicated terminology is being applied with abandon to what alternately is being called the coronavirus pandemic, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic refers to the geographic reach of a disease and not to its intensity or to its capability to readily infect people, to its level of contagiousness. While the geographic extent to which COVID-19 reaches is alarming, in the end attention must also be paid to individuals…

Business Interruption Insurance Claims and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Round 1 In last week’s post, Business Interruption Insurance and the Coronavirus Epidemic, we discussed how businesses impacted by the ongoing Coronavirus epidemic may be able to file a claim under a business interruption clause in their business insurance coverage. We have since learned that, as you might expect, the huge business insurance corporations are scrambling to find reasons to deny such claims. So far, these denials are based on the arguments…