All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 14 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Across the insurance distribution channel, everyone from the largest carriers to individual insurance consumers have witnessed a “digital transformation” to...
Apr 10 2023 // A federal court has rejected a proposed class action by students against Boston University over alleged damages they suffered due to cutbacks by the school during the Covid-19 pandemic.The students sought a refund of...
Apr 5 2023 // The pandemic kickstarted the new wave of accepting and using innovative systems and methods in the insurance industry. It opened eyes to the ways that innovations and technology could do more than just efficiently get the...
Apr 5 2023 // A lawsuit against the University of Delaware over its campus shutdown and halting of in-person classes because of coronavirus can proceed as a class action on behalf of thousands of students who were enrolled and paid...
Apr 3 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...
Mar 31 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) updated COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims data, with insurance carriers reporting 98,000 COVID-19 claims and 468 fatalities through...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...