How The Pandemic Re-Shaped Force Majeure
April 22, 2021
In HospitalityLawyer.com’s Converge blog, Jennifer Adams Shepler and Abby Onaghise, Esq. write about the ever-evolving interpretation of force majeure rights. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, many force majeure clauses did not list “pandemic” as an event that should be considered a force majeure event, leading to countless litigations and the courts playing catch-up with this “new” interpretation. Following the impacts of the pandemic, contract drafters have been swift to include “pandemic” and other similar terms for reasons to excuse the performance of a party in their force majeure clause language.
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