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Force Majeure & The Coronavirus Pandemic’S Effect On Contractual Obligations, Mack Miner Mar 2022

Force Majeure & The Coronavirus Pandemic’S Effect On Contractual Obligations, Mack Miner

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With the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, some businesses found themselves unable to perform on their contracts due to Covid-19's unpredictable nature, government orders, and a variety of other factors. Many contracting parties responded to the unpredictability by invoking force majeure to avoid performance. In his article, Mack Miner considers revising force majeure clauses to read less like boilerplate language and include specific pandemic-like events to help to ensure future force majeure issues are successfully invoked.


Contract Clauses Under Scrutiny: Covid-19, Mike Zawalski Apr 2021

Contract Clauses Under Scrutiny: Covid-19, Mike Zawalski

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Force majeure clauses have saved many businesses that have been unable to perform their contractual obligations during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, Mike Zawalski discusses case law on force majeure provisions in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic.