Federal panel could consolidate Florida business interruption claims into class action suit

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So many COVID-19 business interruption lawsuits have been filed against insurers across the country that a federal judicial panel has called for a hearing on how to legally process them all.

The seven-member U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will ponder how to proceed with more than 450 federal complaints nationwide, in addition to hundreds of lawsuits filed in state courts, Thursday in Washington.

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