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A RESTAURANT PROPERTY-INSURANCE POLICY WHICH COVERS “DIRECT PHYSICAL LOSS OR DAMAGE” DOES NOT COVER THE LOSS OF BUSINESS CAUSED BY COVID-19 (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Halligan, determined the cessation of in-person dining services because of COVID-19 did not constitute “direct physical loss or damage” within the meaning of plaintiff’s property insurance policy:

We do not take lightly the severe economic losses incurred by restaurants and other businesses serving the public as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. But our task is to faithfully interpret the terms of the insurance policy before us, not to “rewrite the language of the polic[y] at issue” to reach a result with “equitable appeal” … . The coverage provisions relied upon by [plaintiff] CRO [Consolidated Restaurant Operations] only cover economic losses to the extent they are caused by “direct physical loss or damage” to insured property. We conclude that the business interruption caused by the actual presence of the coronavirus on the premises of CRO’s insured property, as alleged in the complaint, is insufficient to trigger such coverage. Consolidated Rest. Operations, Inc. v Westport Ins. Corp., 2024 NY Slip Op 00795, CtApp 2-15-24

Practice Point: Property insurance covering “direct physical loss or damage” does not cover a restaurant’s loss of business caused by COVID-19.

 

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