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Coronavirus, contracts and the Constitution

AUGUST 18, 2020 | by David Rivkin, J. Michael Luttig | WALL STREET JOURNAL

Op-ed by David Rivkin and J. Michael Luttig, includes “… Businesses, especially small ones, have suffered terribly because of the Covid-19 virus. Many likely won’t survive. But shifting the burden to the insurance industry by either judicial rewriting or legislatively abrogating insurance contracts would be unconstitutional, especially since the losses have been largely caused by government decrees.  Congress has already provided enormous financial assistance to American businesses—the appropriate means of compensating losses suffered from the government’s shutdown of the economy.” (Hmm) 

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