All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 27 2021 // Florida businesses would be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow state-issued guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a proposal approved Monday at its first Senate committee...
Jan 27 2021 // AstraZeneca PLC was sued by a pension fund on behalf of investors who it says suffered losses because of flaws in the company’s testing of its coronavirus vaccine.For much of last year, the Cambridge, England-based...
Jan 27 2021 // There was no escaping the coronavirus in 2020 and the pandemic will dominate the risk landscape again in 2021, according to global leaders in business, risk management and insurance.A trio of Covid-19 related risks —...
Jan 26 2021 // Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a bill that extends the state’s disaster emergency declaration, allowing Kansas to continue to tap into resources for its pandemic response efforts.The legislation, which extends the...
Jan 26 2021 // Over 300 leading companies said on Tuesday they would work together to help hundreds of thousands of merchant sailors stuck on ships for many months due to COVID-19 in a crisis that risks creating more dangers at sea.About...
Jan 25 2021 // Something must be in Ohio’s air. Another Ohio court recorded a pro-insured COVID decision on January 19, 2021.In Henderson Road Restaurant Systems, Inc v. Zurich American Insurance Company, the United States District...
Jan 25 2021 // United Airlines may make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for employees, and other companies should do the same, United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby told workers at a meeting on Thursday, according to a transcript...
Jan 25 2021 // The percentage of COVID-19 claims among all workers’ compensation paid claims has varied greatly among states and occupations, as has the decrease in non-COVID claims, new research shows.The percentage of COVID-19...
Jan 22 2021 // The Biden Administration has instructed federal workplace safety officials to do more to help halt the spread of the coronavirus on the job.On his first full day on office, President Joseph Biden signed an executive order...
Jan 22 2021 // A third pandemic lockdown appears to be having little impact on rates of COVID-19 in England, researchers warned on Thursday, with prevalence of the disease “very high” and “no evidence of decline”...
Jan 20 2021 // California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims – more than double the previous estimate – with some of that money going to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries,...
Jan 20 2021 // There were 744 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions in 2020, up nearly 20% from 649 reported in 2019. The surge resulted from the pent-up supply of pending transactions from earlier in the year coupled with...
Jan 19 2021 // The Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has extended until June 2021 its mandatory data call for information related to COVID-19 injuries reported to selected insurance carriers on or after Dec. 1, 2019.The...
Jan 19 2021 // The surge of U.S. business formations in the back half of 2020 has been one of the pandemic’s many surprises.After cratering by 30% in the weeks following the March lockdowns, paperwork filed by prospective...
Jan 15 2021 // Louisiana bar owners fighting coronavirus-related closures of their businesses lost an appeal at a federal appeals court.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Jan. 13 upheld rulings from two lower court judges who last...
Jan 15 2021 // Traffic deaths in North Carolina last year surpassed 1,500 for the first time in 13 years despite a pandemic during which motorists logged fewer miles statewide, statistics show.N.C. Department of Transportation data shows...
Jan 15 2021 // What is the biggest lesson that cyber insurers should carry into 2021 after a year in which the COVID-19 pandemic took center stage?In the first Insuring Cyber podcast episode of the new year and the fifth overall, Tim...
Jan 15 2021 // Grocery delivery company Instacart said on Thursday it would pay $25 to its over half-a-million gig workers if they chose to take time off to get vaccinated against COVID-19.The company, which has been lobbying government...
Jan 15 2021 // Small businesses, from restaurants to nightclubs and wedding planners to beauty parlors, on Friday won the right to insurance payouts after Britain’s highest court ruled many policies should cover losses caused by...
Jan 14 2021 // The percentage of COVID-19 claims among all workers’ compensation paid claims has varied greatly among states and occupations, as has the decrease in non-COVID claims, new research shows.The percentage of COVID-19...