Bradley Dlatt was quoted in “Attys Say State High Courts Should Weigh COVID Issues,” an article in Law360,* regarding COVID-19 coverage.

The Seventh Circuit's relative quickness in moving through appeals is indicative of insurance companies' "strategic choice to fast-track" motions to dismiss in these cases before policyholders could conduct discovery, according to Bradley Dlatt, who represents policyholders.

He told Law360 in an emailed statement that "fast-tracking a huge swath of similar cases is normal where there's a similar, discrete legal issue" but the problem here is that there wasn't development of evidence on the impact the virus has to property in early-filed cases that "won the race" to the Seventh Circuit.

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