All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2021 // AXA reported net income of €3.16 billion (US$3.8 billion) during 2020, an 18% drop from €3.86 billion (US$4.7 billion) in full-year 2019.The combined ratio for AXA’s P/C business increased 3.2 points to 99.5%,...
Feb 25 2021 // A Kentucky parent has filed a lawsuit against the Kentucky High School Athletic Association over a policy on when student athletes can return to competition after testing positive for COVID-19.Jon Kelly Johnson, a dentist...
Feb 25 2021 // Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic, but different data sources give varying readouts on...
Feb 24 2021 // Missouri senators have passed a bill to shield hospitals, manufacturers and other businesses from lawsuits over alleged wrongdoing during the pandemic.The GOP-led Senate voted 20-13 in favor of the bill, which now goes to...
Feb 24 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials have cited a Missouri-based auto parts manufacturer for failing to maintain safe workplace conditions after worker tested positive for coronavirus and subsequently died of COVID-19, the...
Feb 24 2021 // A federal judge denied Society Insurance’s motions to dismiss three “bellwether” lawsuits filed by hospitality businesses that were denied coverage for revenue lost because of COVID-19 public health...
Feb 24 2021 // MILAN – Italy’s top insurer Generali said on Wednesday it launched a 3.5 billion euro ($4.26 billion) investment plan over five years to support the recovery of European countries hit by COVID-19.The plan, dubbed...
Feb 24 2021 // U.S. Federal Aviation Administration chief Steve Dickson warned on Tuesday of a changed industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has shaken air travel over the past year and created new safety risks that must be...
Feb 22 2021 // A federal judge tossed out a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that sought to hold an employer responsible for a worker’s spouse getting sick with Covid-19.U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney in San Francisco on Monday...
Feb 22 2021 // Indiana businesses and others now have broad protections from lawsuits by people blaming them for contracting COVID-19 under a new state law.Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb on Feb. 18 signed the bill that he and GOP lawmakers...
Feb 22 2021 // A pandemic-besieged hospital on the edge of the Navajo Nation says it has been the focus of a cyberattack.The nonprofit operator of Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital in Gallup issued a brief statement acknowledging...
Feb 22 2021 // Virginia lawmakers have passed bills that allow certain first responders to file workers’ compensation benefits for being disabled from COVID-19, but still need to reach agreement on some differences.The measures...
Feb 22 2021 // A New Orleans judge has denied a motion for declaratory judgment that insurance coverage is owed to a restaurant for business income that was lost when it was required to close its dining room because of the COVID-19...
Feb 22 2021 // University of Miami Miller School of Medicine researchers are recruiting health care workers to study whether a wearable device, a wristwatch, can capture real time data that can be used to alert wearers of subtle...
Feb 22 2021 // The vast majority of U.S. small businesses took a hit to their revenue last year because of the coronavirus pandemic, with minority-owned businesses struggling the most and worrying more about accessing credit, according...
Feb 22 2021 // In a year marred by a pandemic, massive Western U.S. wildfires, civil unrest, and a contentious election, California’s surplus lines market “didn’t miss a beat.”That was the message from Ben McKay,...
Feb 22 2021 // While it obviously presented challenges, 2020 is looking like it may not have been such a bad year for workers’ compensation insurers and insureds after all.Insurers took in less premium but paid fewer claims. They...
Feb 19 2021 // A.M. Best has upgraded its outlook for the U.S. excess & surplus lines insurance sector citing its resiliency in the face of pandemic challenges.A.M. Best revised its outlook for U.S. E&S to Stable from Negative....
Feb 18 2021 // A federal judge is weighing what she called a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that would hold an employer responsible for a worker’s spouse getting sick with Covid-19.Plenty of families have sued businesses, from retailers...
Feb 18 2021 // U.S. workplace safety regulators have announced more than $4 million in penalties on more than 300 employers they say put workers at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic.But about two-thirds of these employers aren’t...