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Beer garden in Augsburg: "Honest and honest looks different"
Photo: Tom Weller / picture alliance / dpa
For hardly any other industry is Corona such a nightmare as it is for the catering and hotel industry.
The outbreak of the pandemic in spring plunged many into existential poverty, the summer brought brief relief, and now most of them are already worried about winter again.
And as if closings and loss of income weren't trouble enough, many companies also have to struggle with their insurance.
Around 73,000 restaurateurs in Germany have business closure insurance.
So they had hoped to get some of their financial damage reimbursed.
But while some providers were still willing to pay at the beginning of the crisis, most of them are now rejecting all claims.
Thousands of landlords are therefore going to court.
Next Thursday, the district court Munich I could announce a first judgment - the Bavarian mountain hotel "Feuriger Tatzlwurm" has sued the insurance giant Allianz, which refuses to pay.
Two weeks later, a verdict in the dispute between the Munich Augustiner landlord Christian Vogler and the Bavarian Insurance Chamber (VKB) could follow.
63 proceedings are pending in Munich alone.
The responsible judge, Susanne Laufenberg, made it clear at the end of July that she did not follow the insurers' arguments on key points.
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