New Jersey’s Proposed COVID-2019 Business Interruption Insurance Legislation Fails to Socially Distance Itself From Constitutional Prohibitions

New Jersey’s Proposed COVID-2019 Business Interruption Insurance Legislation Fails to Socially Distance Itself From Constitutional Prohibitions

By: Edward M. Koch and Felix S. Yelin Without question, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a world-wide pandemic and paralyzed the United States economy in the first quarter of 2020. Many businesses have been forced to shut down or modify their day-to-day practices in order to minimize the spread of COVID-19 through the…