Bloomberg Business Magazine discussed the possible lawsuits against companies by their workers who contracted Covid 19. The companies will claim the virus was an Act of God and therefore they bear no financial responsibility. Why do they think the courts will rule against the workers? In 1891, the Supreme Court ruled an Act of God is a force majeure and allows courts to dismiss complaints and void contracts.

Now what is an Act of God? The Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said his term’s financial crisis was a credit tsunami, therefore a crooked developer’s attorney pleaded he didn’t have to pay the lending his personal guarantee of $40,000,000 on the loan of $334 million. His lawyers claimed the credit crisis was an Act of God and therefore fell into the force majeure clause of the loan. The crooked hotel developer finally paid the $40 million seven years later from money he borrowed from the same bank to buy the Doral Golf Course.

That ridiculous lawsuit was never ruled on so thousands of virus lawsuits including ones which will be filed against Trump’s properties are possible. The courts will have to decide if a company can disregard employee’s safety to stay open and turn a profit. OSHA was enacted to ensure safety so a court ruling would overturn decades of laws and rulings.