Boarded up business in San Francisco. Many businesses closed due to government orders related to the coronavirus. Featured here is Ziggy's Burgers on Drumm Street in San Francisco. (Photo: Jason Doiy/ALM)

It's fair to say that the long-anticipated wave of COVID-19-related litigation against insurers is beginning to break. In the U.S. alone, there are currently 1,295 such cases making their way through the courts. To put it another way, the number of litigation cases against insurers for COVID-19 has been higher than after total natural disasters between 2009 and 2020.

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