March 25, 2022
Law360 Insurance Authority readers may know his business as Kim-Chee LLC, the first name in the case caption of the Second Circuit's recent decision in favor of insurers in a wave of business interruption coverage suits stemming from the pandemic. But to Grand Master Chuck Gorino and his students, the business means so much more.
March 16, 2022
The full Second Circuit won't rehear an appeal from an upstate New York taekwondo studio, leaving in place a three-judge panel's decision in January against the policyholder seeking coverage for COVID-19-related losses.
February 14, 2022
An upstate New York taekwondo studio requested a full panel of Second Circuit judges reconsider its pandemic coverage suit, saying a three-judge panel improperly acted as fact-finders last month by ruling the coronavirus can't physically alter property.
January 28, 2022
A panel of Second Circuit judges said Friday that an upstate New York taekwondo studio isn't entitled to coverage for its pandemic losses, another ruling from the appeals court to side with an insurer over questions of physical loss.
November 19, 2021
A Second Circuit panel on Friday appeared perplexed as to how the alleged presence of the coronavirus at a Tae Kwon Do studio could cause covered physical damage under a property insurance policy, in the first appeal to address claims that the virus was on a policyholder's property.
July 29, 2021
Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. urged the Second Circuit on Wednesday not to revive a New York martial arts studio's COVID-19 lawsuit for business losses that was tossed by a lower court in April.