(September 18, 2024, 1:32 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals court panel on Sept. 17 affirmed a lower court’s grant of a commercial property insurer’s motion to dismiss the owner of retail footwear chain DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse’s breach of contract and declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking coverage for its losses arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, finding that the policy’s “law and ordinance” and “contamination” exclusions bar coverage....