Mealey's ( July 30, 2025, 4:32 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The federal judge in Illinois who is overseeing a multidistrict litigation by hospitality industry insureds who sought business interruption protection coverage for their losses arising from the coronavirus pandemic on July 30 granted an insurer’s renewed motion to dismiss a master complaint, finding that decisions in other cases interpreting similar and mostly identical coverage provisions “almost uniformly held that there must be some physical effect or alteration to the insured property, not just a loss of its use.”...