On the morning of March 16, less than 24 hours after closing her restaurant the Banty Rooster in New York City’s West Village, Delores Tronco-DePierro filed a business interruption claim to her insurance company. In the days leading up to the closure, diners, encouraged by government officials, had been attempting to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus by limiting social contact, including dining out, making running the three-month-old restaurant financially unsustainable. Hours after Tronco-DePierro made the decision to close