Boxed Foods Company, LLC v. California Capital Insurance Company
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 BOXED FOODS COMPANY, LLC, et al., Case No. 20-cv-04571-CRB
Plaintiffs,
AMENDED ORDER GRANTING
v. CALIFORNIA CAPITAL INSURANCE COMPANY'S MOTION TO DISMISS CALIFORNIA CAPITAL INSURANCE THE COMPLAINT WITH PREJUDICE
COMPANY,
12 Defendant. 13 COVID-19 poses an existential threat to small businesses throughout the United States. Since March, the San Francisco Bay Area alone has seen almost 8,300 businesses close, 4,000 of which shuttered permanently. See Leonardo Castañeda, The Bay Area’s small business closure crisis is already here, The Mercury News (Sept. 22, 2020 7:00 AM), https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/22/the-bay-areas-small-business-closure-crisis-is-already- here/. To survive the catastrophic effects of COVID-19, businesses have filed close to 1,300 federal lawsuits seeking coverage for business interruption losses. See Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, https://cclt.law.upenn.edu/…