{"id":11013,"date":"2020-05-12T07:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T07:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/"},"modified":"2020-05-12T07:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T07:18:35","slug":"dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"xn-location\">DALLAS<\/span>,&nbsp;&nbsp;Trial lawyers at the&nbsp;Fears Nachawati Law Firm&nbsp;have filed a federal lawsuit for an exclusive&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Dallas<\/span>&nbsp;wine bar against Hartford Insurance for denying coverage of damages from the government-imposed shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-chron\">May 8<\/span>&nbsp;in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>&nbsp;says&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hartford<\/span>&nbsp;denied Grailey&#8217;s Fine Wines &amp; Spirits&#8217; damages claim made after&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Dallas County<\/span>&nbsp;authorities ordered all non-essential businesses to close in March. The highly acclaimed Design District establishment&#8217;s insurance policy included coverage for damages caused by such interruptions, including business closures ordered by civil authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like any responsible business, Grailey&#8217;s did everything it could to prepare for events like we&#8217;re experiencing right now,&#8221; said Fears Nachawati lawyer&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Matthew McCarley<\/span>. &#8220;This business made sure it had coverage for interruptions and dutifully paid its premiums.&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hartford<\/span>&nbsp;is trying to make up an excuse after the fact and cite language not even in Grailey&#8217;s policy to reject this claim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fears Nachawati Law Firm has taken a leadership role working with businesses across the country that have seen their business-interruption claims wrongly denied by insurance companies. The firm is actively representing restaurants and other businesses in similar claims. While insurance industry watchdogs note that insurance regulations often fail to adequately protect policy holders, state and federal laws can hold insurance companies accountable, including assessing punitive damages that can result in triple monetary losses.<\/p>\n<p>The case is&nbsp;<em>Grailey&#8217;s Inc. et al. v The&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Hartford<\/span>&nbsp;Fire Insurance Company et al<\/em>., No. 3:20-cv-01181 in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Texas<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2006, Fears Nachawati Law Firm represents individuals, businesses and public entities in cases involving business interruption insurance disputes, medical device and pharmaceutical liability, environmental damage claims, and serious personal injury and wrongful death. For more information on the firm, visit&nbsp;https:\/\/www.fnlawfirm.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fnlawfirm.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fnlawfirm.com<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Robert Tharp<br \/>\n800-559-4534<br \/>\nrobert@androvett.com <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/legal-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Legal Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Robert Tharp<br \/>\n800-559-4534<br \/>\nrobert@androvett.com <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS,&nbsp;&nbsp;Trial lawyers at the&nbsp;Fears Nachawati Law Firm&nbsp;have filed a federal lawsuit for an exclusive&nbsp;Dallas&nbsp;wine bar against Hartford Insurance for denying coverage of damages from the government-imposed shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit filed&nbsp;May 8&nbsp;in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;says&nbsp;Hartford&nbsp;denied Grailey&rsquo;s Fine Wines &amp; Spirits&rsquo; damages claim made after&nbsp;Dallas County&nbsp;authorities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\">Continue reading <span>Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-legal-newswire","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DALLAS,&nbsp;&nbsp;Trial lawyers at the&nbsp;Fears Nachawati Law Firm&nbsp;have filed a federal lawsuit for an exclusive&nbsp;Dallas&nbsp;wine bar against Hartford Insurance for denying coverage of damages from the government-imposed shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit filed&nbsp;May 8&nbsp;in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of&nbsp;Texas&nbsp;says&nbsp;Hartford&nbsp;denied Grailey&rsquo;s Fine Wines &amp; Spirits&rsquo; damages claim made after&nbsp;Dallas County&nbsp;authorities &hellip; Continue reading Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim Continue Reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-12T07:18:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Charles Brown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Charles Brown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\",\"name\":\"Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim - Business\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-12T07:18:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/2fd525425fcc6d62586cc2ba1afc789b\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/\",\"name\":\"Business\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/2fd525425fcc6d62586cc2ba1afc789b\",\"name\":\"Charles Brown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6ea0b826aeecf3e7e0df104a1c7ad5a9950e017f02e425f20d3d64a62c0db070?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6ea0b826aeecf3e7e0df104a1c7ad5a9950e017f02e425f20d3d64a62c0db070?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Charles Brown\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/fc\"],\"url\":\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/author\/charles-brown\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim - Business","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/05\/12\/dallas-wine-bar-sues-hartford-insurance-for-denying-covid-19-business-interruption-claim\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dallas Wine Bar Sues Hartford Insurance for Denying COVID-19 Business Interruption Claim - Business","og_description":"DALLAS,&nbsp;&nbsp;Trial lawyers at the&nbsp;Fears Nachawati Law Firm&nbsp;have filed a federal lawsuit for an exclusive&nbsp;Dallas&nbsp;wine bar against Hartford Insurance for denying coverage of damages from the government-imposed shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 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