COVID-19 Life Insurance Claims Litigation

Summary

This practice note discusses potential bases for COVID-19-related legal actions on life insurance policies involving insurers, insurance intermediaries, policyholders, and beneficiaries for insurance claims. Litigation basics like potential parties, choosing a cause of action, measures of damages, summons and service of process, jurisdiction and venue considerations, choice of law, and available responses to the lawsuit are discussed in relation to COVID-19.