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COVID case filings plateau in June

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Case filings citing COVID-19 keywords increased in March and April, leveled off in May and plateaued in June, says a report by a legal analytics firm.

A total of 1,137 cases that directly resulted from the pandemic were filed between March 1 and July 4, according to the report issued Thursday by Menlo Park, California-based Lex Machina.

New cases with complaints citing COVID-19 increased week-over-week from three in early March to 138 in the last week of April, according to the report.

New case filings peaked in May, at 126-140 per week, and plateaued in June at 102-115 per week, according to the report. The median cases per week from May 3 through July 4 was 115.

In terms of leading practice areas, contracts and insurance had the largest number of complaints from March 1 through July 4 that cited COVID-19 keywords, with 522 and 438 cases, respectively, followed by employment, with 197, the report said.

Insurance, contracts and employment were also the three practice areas with the largest number of cases, at 424, 397 and 102, respectively, that either would not have been filed if not for the pandemic, and/or had claims that were “substantially exacerbated” by the virus, the report said.

The report said additional practice areas with an accruing volume of confirmed new case filings directly resulting from COVID-19 are torts, consumer protection and trademark.

Lex Machine said it covers the majority of cases filed in federal district court.

More insurance and risk management news on the coronavirus crisis here.

 

 

 

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