Business-interruption insurance claims will face a harder time finding their way to the plaintiff-friendly confines of state courts under a recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Federal judges must undergo a detailed analysis before declining to exercise jurisdiction in such cases brought under the Declaratory Judgment Act, the appeals court ruled Wednesday in Umami Pittsburgh v. Motorists Commercial Mutual Insurance.

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