Business Insurance was one of the few media outlets to cover a federal appeals court’s ruling earlier this month in favor of an insurer in a COVID-19-related business interruption (BI) insurance coverage dispute. The first two paragraphs of the trade publication’s story (Policyholder loses federal appeal of BI ruling) are below:

“In what may be the first federal appeals court ruling on the issue, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday [July 2] ruled against an oral surgeon’s practice as to whether a policyholder can recover for COVID-19 losses under its business interruption coverage.

In its ruling in Oral Surgeons, P.C. v. The Cincinnati Insurance Co., a three-judge panel of the St. Louis-based appeals court agreed with the U.S. District Court in Des Moines, Iowa, that the practice’s policy required ‘physical loss’ or ‘physical damage’ to trigger business interruption and extra expense coverage.”