Illinois Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
The web of commercial contracts between businesses is essential to our community. Under ordinary circumstances, the courts provide the mechanism to enforce contracts and provide the commercial certainty that communities need for a thriving economy.
These are not ordinary times.
Few commercial contracts contemplated a “global pandemic” and you probably won’t find the term in your written agreements. Yet, as shops close and we shelter in place, businesses are wondering where they stand regarding their contractual obligations, which may have become impossible to perform. Some businesses are unable to perform because they have been ordered to close. Other businesses are unable to perform due to supply chain interruptions. Others are unable to perform because their employees are quarantined.