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Mar 13, 2020 · On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially designated the outbreak of COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, as a global pandemic. In recent weeks, this unforeseen global event has grown into significant health crisis, one that is already disrupting business operations and affecting trade and profits across multiple sectors. In this article, we look at what happens if your ...
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Mar 20, 2020 · The obligations cannot simply be more difficult to fulfill; they must be impossible. The determination of these questions will be both fact- and contract-specific. The treatment of COVID-19 in a global context, while not determinative, may provide some insight into whether obligations under a contract have become impossible to perform.
Jul 1, 2020 · The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has upset contractual expectations around the country and the world. As with other natural disasters, the common law doctrines of Impossibility and Restitution will apply to contracts upended by the coronavirus pandemic and related government orders. If a contract contains a Force Majeure clause, however, the terms ...
Mar 3, 2020 · by Practical Law Canada Commercial Transactions. The outbreak of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) originating in Wuhan, China, has rapidly spread to many countries throughout the world, including Canada and the United States. As a major trading nation, Canadian companies are directly or indirectly affected by the pandemic.
Apr 1, 2020 · 10 min read. Article. In the current economic climate, many businesses will face the argument that contracts they rely on could not be performed because of disruptions caused by COVID-19. The party seeking to avoid the contractual obligation will either rely on a force majeure clause in the contract itself or resort to the doctrine of frustration.
Dec 8, 2020 · Parties to contracts signed prior to the pandemic are now often assessing whether the COVID-19 pandemic qualifies as an event of force majeure under their agreements such that they should now be excused from performance. Meanwhile, parties entering into contracts since the beginning of the pandemic are grappling with how to best allocate the risks that a global pandemic – now no longer an ...
Jan 11, 2022 · Salt Lake City. o 801.532.1234. HEctor@parsonsbehle.com. January 11, 2022. In March of 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, force majeure clauses became a hot topic of conversation. [1] Contracting parties suddenly had an interest in dusting off the boilerplate provisions of their pre-COVID contracts to determine whether, and to what ...
