Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
What NFL’s Game Plan Can Teach America About Handling COVID-19
Feb 2 2021 // With just days to go before the Super Bowl, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is cheerleading the National Football League (NFL) for its COVID-19 mitigation strategy, The CDC has published a paper...
House Committee to Probe Tyson, Smithfield, OSHA Over Covid Outbreaks
Feb 2 2021 // A Democratic-led House panel is launching a probe into coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants and whether the Occupational Safety and Health Administration adequately enforced worker safety rules. Representative James...
OSHA Issues COVID-19 Workplace Safety Guidance
Feb 1 2021 // President Joe Biden’s administration released new workplace guidelines Friday that signaled a more proactive approach to protecting workers from the coronavirus. The new guidance from the U.S. Occupational Safety and...
Businesses Should Take the Lead on COVID-19 Recovery, Climate Crisis: UN Chief
Jan 29 2021 // UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday [Jan. 25] urged businesses to lead the way to a fair and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic while tackling the climate crisis, adding the world had reached...
Industry Underestimating COVID-19 Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
Jan 29 2021 // During an upbeat earnings call focused on how RenaissanceRe is using $1 billion of capital it raised last year in 2021, the CEO highlighted one negative development for the industry overall — inadequate estimates of...
California Passes 103K COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims for AY 2020
Jan 28 2021 // The monthly count of COVID-19 job injury claims reported rose to a record 32,549 cases in December, bringing the total number of COVID-19 claims for accident year 2020 to 103,712, or more than one out of every six...
Alabama Education Association Urges COVID Vaccinations for Teachers After 39 Deaths
Jan 28 2021 // The Alabama Education Association is urging the state to give teachers COVID-19 vaccinations following the deaths of at least 39 public school employees from the contagious illness. The group, which represents public...
Trump Health Secretary Rule Slows COVID Court Claims Against Nursing Homes
Jan 28 2021 // Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mother’s death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of the disease. An unexpected legal hurdle...
California’s State Fund Launches COVID Regulations Resource Center
Jan 27 2021 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has created a free resource center for employers, whether they are policyholders or not, to prepare their businesses for the next phases of COVID-19 reopening and help...
Florida Introduces Bill to Protect Businesses from COVID-19 Lawsuits
Jan 27 2021 // Florida businesses would be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow state-issued guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a proposal approved Monday at its first Senate committee...
Investor Sues Drugmaker Astrazeneca Over Coronavirus Vaccine Testing Claims
Jan 27 2021 // AstraZeneca PLC was sued by a pension fund on behalf of investors who it says suffered losses because of flaws in the company’s testing of its coronavirus vaccine. For much of last year, the Cambridge, England-based...
Pandemic-Related Business Interruption, Cyber Top Business Risks for 2021: Allianz
Jan 27 2021 // There was no escaping the coronavirus in 2020 and the pandemic will dominate the risk landscape again in 2021, according to global leaders in business, risk management and insurance. A trio of Covid-19 related risks —...
Kansas Governor Extends Pandemic Disaster Declaration
Jan 26 2021 // Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a bill that extends the state’s disaster emergency declaration, allowing Kansas to continue to tap into resources for its pandemic response efforts. The legislation, which extends the...
Top Trading Firms Vow to Help Merchants Sailors Stuck on Ships Due to Coronavirus
Jan 26 2021 // Over 300 leading companies said on Tuesday they would work together to help hundreds of thousands of merchant sailors stuck on ships for many months due to COVID-19 in a crisis that risks creating more dangers at...
Wow! Another COVID Decision in Ohio Favoring the Insured
Jan 25 2021 // Something must be in Ohio’s air. Another Ohio court recorded a pro-insured COVID decision on January 19, 2021. In Henderson Road Restaurant Systems, Inc v. Zurich American Insurance Company, the United States...
United Airlines CEO Urges Employers to Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines
Jan 25 2021 // United Airlines may make the COVID-19 vaccine mandatory for employees, and other companies should do the same, United Chief Executive Officer Scott Kirby told workers at a meeting on Thursday, according to a transcript...
How COVID Effect on Workers’ Compensation Claims Has Varied by State, Industry
Jan 25 2021 // The percentage of COVID-19 claims among all workers’ compensation paid claims has varied greatly among states and occupations, as has the decrease in non-COVID claims, new research shows. The percentage of COVID-19...
Biden Orders OSHA to Step Up COVID Workplace Safety Guidance, Enforcement
Jan 22 2021 // The Biden Administration has instructed federal workplace safety officials to do more to help halt the spread of the coronavirus on the job. On his first full day on office, President Joseph Biden signed an executive order...
In Third Lockdown, England Seeing ‘No Evidence of Decline’ in COVID-19 Cases
Jan 22 2021 // A third pandemic lockdown appears to be having little impact on rates of COVID-19 in England, researchers warned on Thursday, with prevalence of the disease “very high” and “no evidence of decline”...
California COVID-19 Benefits Fraud, Cyber Attack Could Reach $9.8B
Jan 20 2021 // California may have paid out nearly $10 billion in phony coronavirus unemployment claims – more than double the previous estimate – with some of that money going to organized crime in Russia, China and other countries,...
