In the first ruling of its kind, Vermont’s Supreme Court allowed a military shipbuilding company to proceed with its claim that the company’s insurance policy should cover COVID-19 related loss of income and additional expenses. Dissenters voiced their opposition based on a belief that COVID harms people, not property. Despite this disagreement, the shipbuilder will still have the chance to prove its case in a Franklin Superior Court proceeding.
In a 3-2 split […] the majority said Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) had cleared the state’s “extremely low bar” for initial pleadings by alleging that the virus adheres to surfaces, turning them into vectors for disease that must be counteracted with barriers and other physical modifications.
Source: Shipbuilder’s COVID insurance lawsuit revived by Vermont high court | Reuters