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By Shawn Rice (July 11, 2022, 6:59 p.m. EDT) – Business owners who say they suffered civil unrest losses stemming from the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in a nationally publicized incident are looking to the courts for compensation from their insurers, raising a potentially “tricky” coverage issue, experts tell Law360.
In this photo from Sunday, June 7, 2020, Zack Murray paints a mural honoring George Floyd on the side of a building in Houston’s Third Ward. Floyd, who grew up in the Third Ward, died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on Memorial Day of that year. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
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