When Hurricane Sandy struck New Jersey last week, one of my out-of-state lawyer friends, employing the sort of dark humor that perhaps only other lawyers can appreciate, congratulated me on my “happy positioning in the world’s greatest business interruption insurance goldmine.”  I told him that, unfortunately, this time I might be a plaintiff instead of

In the last post, we took a look at the Dictiomatic case, in which the policyholder took a beating for overreaching on a business interruption claim.  Turnabout being fair play, let’s now have a look at a recent case in which the insurance company got thumped in the business interruption arena.  The case is Amerigraphics

I’m getting ready to speak at an ABA-TIPS conference on the topic of business interruption insurance.  Given the number of horrible tragedies we’ve been through in the past decade (prayers for all those affected by the earthquake in Japan), it’s certainly a timely subject. 

To cut to the chase:  Business interruption insurance is designed to