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Contracts

Feb. 21, 2020

What happens when contracts are breached due to the coronavirus?

Expect parties to look to force majeure provisions.

Matthew S. Ingles

Partner
Greenberg Gross LLP

Email: mingles@ggtriallaw.com

Matthew is a partner in the firm's Los Angeles who focuses his practice on litigating business disputes, including breaches of manufacturing and shipping agreements.

The outbreak of coronavirus disease has infected tens of thousands of people in China and escalating numbers in at least two dozen other countries, including the United States. In addition to its devastating impact on public health, the coronavirus carries with it wide-ranging ramifications for businesses around the globe.

If the rapid spread of the epidemic continues, the disease -- designated COVID-19 by the World Health Organizati...

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