Businesses Should Determine Whether Non Performance of Contracts May Be Excused by the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this time of uncertainty, businesses should examine their contracts to analyze the risk of non-performance of obligations and to identify force majeure clauses in light of the COVID 19 pandemic. Force majeure clauses, and the common law doctrine of impracticability, may excuse non-performance upon the occurrence of unanticipated events that are not within the control of either party. The…