All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 15 2022 // Nearly six years after flood damage from Hurricane Matthew displaced Thad Artis from his home in Goldsboro, North Carolina, he has still not been placed in permanent housing.Living alone in a motel for the last two years,...
Sep 7 2022 // A Texas jury awarded the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston $48,529,961 for damages caused by COVID-19 in what appears to be the first jury verdict in a lawsuit that sought insurance coverage for lost business income...
Sep 5 2022 // Courts have reopened and trials have resumed, but the impacts of COVID-19 continue to linger in the judicial system, a panel of claims litigation experts said during the Combined Claims Conference last month.For one thing,...
Aug 29 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with industry...
Aug 26 2022 // Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years...
Aug 24 2022 // The majority of US pandemic-era inflation came from a surge in demand, but supply-chain constraints stoked it further, Federal Reserve Bank of New York research shows.About 60% of the inflation seen from 2019 to 2021 was...
Aug 23 2022 // Courts have reopened and trials have resumed, but the impacts of COVID-19 continue to linger in the judicial system, a panel of claims litigation experts said during the Combined Claims Conference on Thursday.For one...
Aug 23 2022 // The operators of a Tucson, Arizona, nightclub have won a $1.6 million settlement against the landlord who locked them out of their business during the pandemic.The Arizona Daily Star reported that a jury in Pima County...
Aug 17 2022 // The digital threat landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching insurers and other companies some valuable lessons about digital privacy in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade...
Aug 12 2022 // Federal and state appeals courts in two Southeastern states have ruled against pandemic-affected businesses, adding to the list of decisions that have found that insurance policies cover only physical damages.In South...
Aug 12 2022 // The South Carolina Supreme Court on August 10 became the fourth state high court in the nation to rule that the virus that causes COVID-19 cannot cause a direct physical damage or loss covered by a commercial property...
Aug 5 2022 // The Seattle City Council has voted to end COVID-19 hazard pay for grocery store workers.The Seattle Times reports the council voted 5-2 on Tuesday, with Councilmembers Lisa Herbold and Teresa Mosqueda absent, to repeal a...
Aug 4 2022 // Boston-based Safety Insurance touted a combined ratio of 92.1 and a win in a COVID-19 business interruption court case as highlights for its second quarter.However, second quarter net income was $7.9 million compared to...
Jul 21 2022 // The National Hockey League can pursue a lawsuit against its insurance provider over losses stemming from the COVID pandemic — but not for the billions of the dollars in damages the league’s 19 clubs...
Jul 20 2022 // The number of travelers reporting stranded luggage this summer jumped 30% from 2019, according to Spanish insurer Mapfre SA.More bags are going missing as short-staffed airports and airlines struggle to keep up with...
Jul 18 2022 // In the annals of how the pandemic changed things, toss in a positive tale from insurer CSAA Insurance Group.Walnut Creek, California-based CSAA, a AAA Insurer, offers automobile, homeowners and other personal lines of...
Jul 15 2022 // China has been tweaking its stringent COVID curbs but shows no sign of backing off from its “dynamic zero” policy, and has lagged in vaccination efforts that would enable it to do so, casting a heavy shadow...
Jul 14 2022 // Long-haul travel is back among Danes and even more popular than before the COVID-19 pandemic, as pent-up wanderlust increasingly drives them to venture outside Europe’s borders, Scandinavia’s largest insurer...
Jul 7 2022 // A North Carolina appellate court has overturned a rare win by businesses seeking to compel insurance coverage for their COVID-19 shutdown losses.In North State Deli et al vs. The Cincinnati Insurance Co., a three-judge...
Jul 7 2022 // Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, has made a campaign staple out of the allegation that Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf’s policy of readmitting COVID-19 patients from hospitals to nursing...