June 16, 2021 Updated: June 16, 2021 8:05 am
CONCORD, NH (AP) – A judge has ruled in favor of a group of hotels whose owners have sued their insurance carriers for lost business during the coronavirus pandemic.
Schleicher and Stebbins Hotels, LLC businessman Mark Stebbins, one of the plaintiffs, said the pandemic generated tens of millions of dollars in revenue for about two dozen hotels in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
The group had paid $ 600 million in insurance. In April 2020, she filed an insurance claim to cover damage caused by COVID-19. Insurance companies questioned the “direct physical loss or damage” of property, saying hotels did not provide enough detail. The hotel owners said they took in infected guests and employees. They sued the insurance companies; both sides asked for a court decision.
“The court is convinced that all requirements under the guidelines” loss or damage “or” direct physical loss or damage to property “are met when property is contaminated by the COVID-19 virus,” ruled the Merrimack judge County Superior Court, John Kissinger on Tuesday.
