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· 9/19/1980

Berkeley Inn, Inc. v. Centennial Insurance

Citations

  • 422 A.2d 1078
  • 282 Pa. Super. 207
  • 1980 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3109

How courts have described this case

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  • computing interest from the date the insurer acknowledged liability under the policy
  • business interruption insurance generally intended to return to insured amount of profit it would otherwise have earned
  • prejudgment interest is recoverable from the date of the fire if the insurance company denies liability in total
  • court denied damages for business interruption where insured’s business was doomed to fail anyway
  • business partially destroyed by fire and court refused to allow recovery for lost earnings because the “business was doomed to failure” and business operations could not have continued as a viable enterprise, notwithstanding the fire

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Judges: Price, Cavanaugh, Watkins

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