In a case that has garnered national attention, a Louisiana appeals court this week ruled that a French Quarter restaurant’s insurance policy should cover losses stemming from COVID-19 shutdowns and restrictions that hurt its business.
The case, which was filed initially in March 2020, was the first in the country to seek business interruption insurance payments to cover losses incurred when state and local authorities restricted travel, dining and other in-person gatherings in an effort to control the pandemic.
Restaurants and bars were among the hardest hit by the pandemic restrictions that arrived in March 2020, when Gov. John Bel Edwards, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and public officials across the U.S. shuttered businesses in an effort to slow COVID’s spread.
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