All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 10 2020 // Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal locked in spell-binding battle. Paul McCartney sharing a stage with Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift. The long-awaited 32nd Olympic Games.The list of canned crowd-thrillers that were planned...
Jun 9 2020 // A survey by the Sturgis City Council found that most locals want the 80th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally postponed due to the coronavirus.The Rapid City Journal reports the city mailed 3,290 surveys to resident addresses...
Jun 9 2020 // Maryland further eased restrictions imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus by allowing businesses to reopen Friday, but some of the state’s largest jurisdictions are waiting to enter Phase 2 of the...
Jun 9 2020 // More than 60% of Idaho’s coronavirus-related deaths are among residents of long-term care facilities like nursing homes, according to numbers released by the state on Friday.The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare...
Jun 9 2020 // Analysts for Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings shared a view that U.S. underwriting losses from COVID-19 would fall in the $15-$30 billion range.However, risk officers speaking at a rating agency conference last...
Jun 9 2020 // The COVID-19 pandemic has upended lives, families, business routines, and the economy. Today, despite an uptick in May, 21 million people are unemployed in the United States, and the workforce has dropped to 137 million....
Jun 8 2020 // New research shows that the restrictive measures taken around the world to slow the spread of the coronavirus have delivered considerable health benefits.Public health measures including social distancing and lockdowns...
Jun 8 2020 // More hurricanes and tropical storms than usual could make landfall in the United States this summer, forecasters predict. That is sending Texans and officials who are increasingly facing severe weather events scrambling to...
Jun 8 2020 // Fire officials preparing for a hazardous wildfire season in Nevada will be challenged by high temperatures, drought and the coronavirus.“Fire doesn’t really care that there’s a pandemic. We’re going...
Jun 8 2020 // Reaching out to some of the same risk professionals that respond to the its “Global Risks Report” each year, the World Economic Forum announced the results of a special “COVID-19 Risk Perception...
Jun 8 2020 // U.S. trade credit insurers have approached the U.S. Treasury Department and Federal Reserve seeking financial backing for claims payments to support business supply chains hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, three...
Jun 8 2020 // Shelters that open during dangerous hurricanes may look and operate differently this storm season, state emergency officials said, as the new coronavirus complicate response plans.Across the coastal United States, concerns...
Jun 5 2020 // South Carolina health officials issued a warning Wednesday that people who go to graduations, businesses or other recently opened places and aren’t careful about wearing masks or social distancing may be contributing...
Jun 5 2020 // The metal detectors every sports fan has become accustomed to at the gate might soon be accompanied by thermal body scanners as part of the gargantuan task of preventing the spread of the new coronavirus and other airborne...
Jun 5 2020 // No matter where you work in the property/casualty insurance industry, your experience is important.How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting you now? Going forward? What do you expect to change? When will you be ready to...
Jun 5 2020 // At least 44 meatpacking workers in the U.S. have died from the new coronavirus and another 3,000 have tested positive, according to an estimate released on May 28 by the largest union representing workers.Meat processing...
Jun 5 2020 // While reinsurers are “open for business” and insurers and reinsurers are reporting the impacts of COVID-19 as a one-off catastrophe impacting earnings rather than capital, equity markets are viewing the...
Jun 5 2020 // Al’s, a sporting-goods store tucked in Wilmington, Delaware’s small shopping district, opened during the Great Depression, weathered World War II and has been able to keep workers on the job during the...
Jun 4 2020 // Florida’s emergency manager is expressing complete confidence that the state is prepared for a hurricane during the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic, but some local directors aren’t sharing the same level of...
Jun 4 2020 // The Mississippi State Department of Health said Tuesday that it will start releasing the names of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities where people have tested positive for the new coronavirus.The action comes...