Owners of a San Francisco restaurant had no reason to expect their insurance to pay for pandemic-related losses even though their policy included coverage for virus-caused damages, California’s Supreme Court unanimously held Thursday. In a 27-page opinion, the court said John’s Grill’s property insurance, specifically its “limited fungi, bacteria or…

For tech companies, one antitrust expert says to stay tuned for more scrutiny of relationships with operating systems and platforms after a ruling against Google in the federal government’s antitrust suit. And benefit to consumers from such relationships might not provide a sufficient defense to antitrust charges.  On Monday, the U.S.…

Insurance coverage is meant to provide you with peace of mind by ensuring that you have a financial backup in case of destructive events, like a tornado. However, all insurance companies and policies are different, so if you are wondering, “Do insurance companies cover tornado damage?”, the answer is both…

Six and one-half years have passed since “Lavern’s Law” became effective and provided a long overdue date of discovery rule to protect victims of negligent failures to diagnose cancer from having their statutes of limitations expire before they knew or had reason to know that they were injured by medical…

Parties for and against keeping the Boy Scouts of America’s Chapter 11 plan in place have weighed in on how or if the Supreme Court of the United States’ June 27 opinion in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma changes the plan’s validity. In briefing submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third…

Two firms’ recent additions of veteran lawyers in rapidly expanding offices are the latest examples of Big Law firms viewing Charlotte, North Carolina, as a place for growth in a number of practice areas and industries this year. Some longtime observers of the city’s legal industry said its growth is…