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Business Interruption Insurance Claims and the Coronavirus Epidemic: Round 2 In a previous post, the business interruption claims lawyer at The Doan Law Firm discussed the issue of business interruption insurance claims related to the Coronavirus epidemic and state/local government-mandatory business closing orders. In the latest twist to arguments as to whether or not insurance carriers are liable for such claims, Insurancejournal.com is reporting that lawmakers in at least 4 states (Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Ohio, as of…

Visiting the Neighborhood Grocer:Your Right to Reasonable Safety in a Retail Store During the COVID-19 Outbreak Misinformation abounds as the United States enters into the third month of addressing the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. As a considerable segment of the nation operates on “stay at home” directives issued by state and local units of government, life as we’ve known it has changed markedly but it has not come to a grinding halt by any means. People from all…

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…

Fraternity Hazing: First Quarter 2020 The massive social disruptions due to the Corona virus epidemic have led practically every junior college, college, and university in the nation to either suspend all classes for the remainder of the semester or to switch to online/distance education. As a result of campus closings, the reported number of fraternity suspensions and closings has dropped dramatically. However, prior to the early March shutdowns, our fraternity in-house fraternity misconduct database at The Doan Law Firm recorded…