Latest COVID-19 Headlines

All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.

Texas Luxury Auto Dealership Fined $15K for Firing Employee Who Raised COVID Concerns

Mar 29 2023 // When an employee of a luxury auto dealership in Austin learned a co-worker had tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2020, they alerted the company’s management and requested they notify other employees...

Louisiana Supreme Ct. Reverses, Rejects Coverage for COVID Shutdown

Mar 21 2023 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has joined state high courts across the nation in rejecting a policyholder’s business-interruption claim for income lost because of government restrictions imposed to slow the spread of...

California Care Home Charged in Connection With COVID Deaths

Mar 20 2023 // A Southern California residential care home company and three of its managers have been charged in connection with 14 COVID-related deaths at one of its facilities three years ago, prosecutors said.The criminal complaint...

8th Circuit: COVID Stay-at-Home Orders Did Not ‘Quarantine’ Skiers

Mar 20 2023 // Government orders that restricted access to non-essential businesses during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were not “quarantines” that require a travel insurer to reimburse policyholders who did not...

Alabama Senate Panel Wants $1B in Pandemic Relief for Infrastructure, Broadband

Mar 17 2023 // Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a House-passed plan to use the state’s final $1 billion in federal pandemic relief funds largely on a mix of water and sewer infrastructure, broadband expansion and health care...

California Care Home Charged in Connection With COVID Deaths

Mar 16 2023 // A Southern California residential care home company and three of its managers have been charged in connection with 14 COVID-related deaths at one of its facilities three years ago, prosecutors said.The criminal complaint...

Arkansas Tyson Workers Sue Over Lack of COVID Precautions

Mar 10 2023 // Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-packing plants during the early days of the...

Michigan Conservative Group Will Get Reward for Suing Over COVID-19 Loans

Mar 8 2023 // MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) – A conservative economic-policy group will get a $22,500 reward for blowing the whistle on a Michigan teachers union and its insurance arm, which got $12.5 million in government-backed loans...

Show Must Go On for Broadway Theaters’ Covid Loss Claim, Federal Judge Rules

Mar 8 2023 // A New York federal judge has refused to lower the curtain on a Covid-19 business loss claim by the owner of five Broadway theaters because the entertainment insurance policy language is ambiguous as to whether the theater...

Families Sue Over Covid-19 Deaths at Chelsea Veterans Home

Mar 3 2023 // The families of three residents of a veterans’ care facility in Massachusetts who died after contracting COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic say in federal lawsuit that the deaths were “premature and...

Federal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Insurance Claim

Mar 1 2023 // A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policy.U.S. District...

California’s Final State Emergencies Winding Down 3 Years Into Pandemic

Mar 1 2023 // California’s coronavirus emergency officially ended Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim...

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Denial of ITT’s Covid-19 Insurance Claims

Feb 24 2023 // Global corporation ITT has again been denied coverage under its “all-risk” policy for business costs and losses it sustained due to Covid-19.The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling by the...

Texas Dental Practice to Pay Back Wages to Workers Fired for Raising COVID Concerns

Feb 23 2023 // Two workers at a North Texas dental practice will share $15,706 in back wages to be paid by the dentists who fired them for raising concerns about COVID-19 safety measures in Spring 2020, following a federal whistleblower...

Madison Square Garden Loses Appeal of Covid-19 Insurance Claim Dismissal

Feb 23 2023 // A New York appeals court last week upheld the dismissal of Madison Square Garden’s Covid-19 business interruption claim against Factory Mutual Insurance Co.The court agreed with a New York County court’s...

Nurse Practitioner Claims Have Increased Since 2017 but COVID Effect Yet to Play Out

Feb 14 2023 // The distribution and severity of nurse practitioner (NP) office practice setting claims have increased sharply since 2017, according to a new report from CNA in collaboration with its business partners at Nurses Service...

31% of Workers Filing COVID Claims Suffer Long-Term, but Rate Declining: New York Fund

Feb 10 2023 // A report released this month by New York State Insurance Fund found that 31% of workers who filed claims for COVID-19 continued medical treatment or took time off work more than 60 days after the initial...

New York City Ending Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate for City Employees

Feb 8 2023 // New York City, which once had the nation’s strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including...

Connecticut Supreme Court Upholds Insurers in Two Covid-19 Business Loss Appeals

Jan 31 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld insurers in two cases where claims for business interruption losses blamed on Covid-19 were denied because there was no direct physical damage.One case involved healthcare...

‘American Horror Story’ TV Production Firms Sued Over Driver’s COVID Death

Jan 12 2023 // The wife of a late Massachusetts man is suing the companies involved in the 2021 production of “American Horror Story” on Cape Cod, alleging their lack of precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 led to...