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The Brown Recluse and Hope for Pandemic Shuttered Missouri Businesses: Business Interruption Policies May Cover COVID-19 Losses

By Aaron E. Schwartz / September 10, 2020 / Comments Off on The Brown Recluse and Hope for Pandemic Shuttered Missouri Businesses: Business Interruption Policies May Cover COVID-19 Losses

In one of our prior blogs, we predicted the first round of COVID-19 business interruption coverage litigation would battle over the issue of whether closure orders result in “physical loss or damage” sufficient to trigger coverage. Indeed, one of the first courts to have considered COVID-19 business interruption claims in Missouri focused on this very…

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Data In, Data Out: Concerns Around PPP Loan Data Accuracy

By Michelle F. Schwerin / September 10, 2020 / Comments Off on Data In, Data Out: Concerns Around PPP Loan Data Accuracy

On Monday, September 1, members of the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (the “Subcommittee”), tasked with overseeing the implementation and effectiveness of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), issued a memo reporting a lack of oversight, leading to “billions of dollars being diverted to fraud, waste, and abuse . . .” in…

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This Lawsuit’s For You: Neil Young v. Donald Trump in the Copyright Infringement Ring

By Pete Salsich / August 11, 2020 / Comments Off on This Lawsuit’s For You: Neil Young v. Donald Trump in the Copyright Infringement Ring

Rocker Neil Young has re-invented himself many times throughout his long and illustrious career – from his earliest days as a solo artist in Canada and Los Angeles, to his time with super groups Buffalo Springfield and CSNY, many years of rocking on and off with Crazy Horse, a patch of New Wave on his…

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