Latest COVID-19 Headlines

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

Chilean Union Workers Want Probe Into Coronavirus Deaths at Codelco Copper Mine

Jun 26 2020 // SANTIAGO— Unionized mine workers in Chile late on Wednesday demanded an investigation into the death of a third miner from coronavirus at state-run Codelco, increasing pressure on the world´s largest copper producer as...

Florida Counties to Crack Down on Businesses as Virus Cases Surge

Jun 25 2020 // This story has been updated from an earlier version:Floridians traveling to the New York City area will be required to quarantine as Florida’s new confirmed coronavirus cases skyrocketed by 5,500 Wednesday, a 25%...

Vermont Unemployment Insurance Decrease Aims to Help During COVID

Jun 25 2020 // Vermont businesses are going to be getting a break on the costs of their unemployment insurance, and people collecting unemployment benefits will be getting more money, Governor Phil Scott said Tuesday.Starting July 1, the...

Jewish Sleepaway Camp Operators Sue for New York Coronavirus Closures

Jun 25 2020 // A group of Jewish summer camp operators has filed a lawsuit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for his decision to keep overnight camps closed this summer due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Association of Jewish Camp...

COVID-19 Could Rank Among Re/Insurance Sector’s Most Expensive Events: Carpenter

Jun 25 2020 // Although considerable uncertainty remains over its ultimate cost, the COVID-19 pandemic looks set to rank among the re/insurance sector’s most expensive events, according to a report published by reinsurance broker...

Exclusive: How P/C Insurance Pros Are Faring Working From Home During Pandemic

Jun 25 2020 // According to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, there’s no place like home.For many in the property/casualty insurance industry, home is where their job has been during the pandemic. While millions of people in other...

100s of Virus Deaths Draw Focus on Missouri Nursing Home Industry

Jun 24 2020 // After years of failed attempts, advocates for nursing home residents this year won approval of legislation that allows families to install surveillance cameras in residents’ rooms.The measure, backers say, will help...

Texas Governor Urges Masks as Virus Cases Rise

Jun 24 2020 // Texas’ surging coronavirus numbers will not slow the state’s reopening, according to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has prescribed an emphasis on face coverings and social distancing to curtail sobering...

Legal Liability and Requiring COVID Masks

Jun 24 2020 // States are in various stages of reopening following months of COVID-19 lock downs. As the states progress through the phases, businesses are making key decisions regarding masks, should masks be required or optional? Some...

Minor League Baseball Teams Sue Insurers for Coronavirus Business Income Losses

Jun 24 2020 // Fifteen U.S. minor league baseball teams on Tuesday sued several insurers for not paying out claims for business interruption losses after the cancellation of “much or all” of the league’s season as a...

Bullying and Harassment Increase for Some Workers in Pandemic Lockdown: Opinion

Jun 23 2020 // Working from home should have liberated employees from toxic workplace behavior such as bullying and harassment. Amid the lockdowns, gone are undesired office encounters, business trips, round-the-clock conferences and...

In U.S., 1 in 4 COVID-19 Deaths Are Residents of Nursing Homes

Jun 22 2020 // Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data released Thursday.As...

China Says Food Unlikely to Be Cause of New Virus Outbreak, but Blocks Tyson Imports

Jun 22 2020 // China suspended poultry imports from a Tyson Foods Inc. plant where hundreds of employees tested positive for Covid-19, stoking concerns over the broader implications for U.S. and global meat exports.All products from the...

UK Insurer Saga Refunds £44M to Customers on COVID-19 Travel Interruptions

Jun 22 2020 // Saga has refunded 44 million pounds ($54.45 million) of advance payments to customers whose travel was interrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, the British over-50s holidays and insurance specialist said on Monday.The...

Governor Signs Louisiana Bills Shielding Businesses from Virus Lawsuits

Jun 22 2020 // Louisiana businesses are receiving state protection from most lawsuits involving COVID-19 deaths or injuries, after Gov. John Bel Edwards signed into law a package of measures that provides the sweeping liability...

Colleges Asking Returning Athletes to Sign COVID-19 Risk Forms

Jun 22 2020 // Ohio State calls it the Buckeye Acknowledgment and Pledge, a two-page document the school asked its athletes to sign before they could begin using team facilities during the pandemic.The document SMU is requiring its...

AI-Powered Supply Chain Software in Demand Amid Coronavirus Disruption

Jun 19 2020 // For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows them to track all their suppliers in a way that minimizes risks in operating globally spread...

Tennessee House Lawmakers Advance Broad Coronavirus Liability Protection

Jun 19 2020 // Tennessee would become the latest state to provide health care providers, schools and businesses broad protections against coronavirus lawsuits under a proposal gaining traction inside the GOP-dominant Statehouse.House...

China Finds Coronavirus Contamination in Seafood and Meat in Beijing Food Market

Jun 19 2020 // China has found the trading sections for meat and seafood in Beijing’s wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the new coronavirus and suspects the area’s low temperature and high humidity may...

Hotels’ Coronavirus Recovery Offerings Include Robots, Purifiers, Nonstop Elevators

Jun 19 2020 // Set in the kelly-green hills of Ireland’s County Clare, Dromoland Castle is the type of getaway that never sits empty. Why would it, with a pampering spa tucked behind 16th century walls, a par-72 championship golf...