Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Courts Allow COVID-19 Claims by Insureds With Policy Endorsements for Diseases
Jan 12 2021 // While insurers continue to win four out of five cases in early rounds, in the past month two property owners with policies that contained endorsements specifically providing coverage for diseases survived motions to...
Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution Risks and Insurance: Q&A With Allianz Specialists
Jan 12 2021 // As COVID-19 vaccine distribution rolls out across the country, insurers of the pharmaceutical industry are in a position to share their experience as to what constitutes a successful and safe distribution process. Allianz...
Kentucky Lawmakers Pass Bills Limiting Gov’s Authority on Pandemic Restrictions
Jan 11 2021 // In a stinging rebuke of the Democratic governor’s response to COVID-19, Republican lawmakers on Saturday gave final passage to bills limiting his emergency powers to impose restrictions meant to contain the...
Here’s What’s New in U.S. Small Business Pandemic Paycheck Protection Program
Jan 11 2021 // The Small Business Administration launches on Monday more Paycheck Protection Program loans to help small businesses weather the coronavirus pandemic. Congress last month approved $284 billion in new funds for the...
Directors & Officers Risk Landscape Shaped by Insolvencies, COVID, Activism
Jan 11 2021 // While the COVID-19 pandemic presents risks for directors and officers (D&O), it is far from the only force these insureds and their insurers will be dealing with in the year ahead. Rising insolvency exposures, growing...
Employment Practices Insurance in the Age of Covid
Jan 11 2021 // Overall trends for the past 30 years in the employment practices liability insurance market have been influenced by society and culture. As concerns over racial and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, gender...
Logic & Language and Forms & Facts The Final Word on COVID-19 and Insurance?
Jan 11 2021 // Since this is an insurance coverage column, it’s perhaps fitting to initiate the new year with a look back at the biggest coverage issue of the past year and probably the past couple of decades. In 2001, the coverage...
Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination?
Jan 11 2021 // The long-awaited and highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine is here. The first to arrive on the scene, from Pfizer-BioNTech, received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration several days ago. On the...
Pandemic-Era Mardi Gras Lack Crowds, But Plenty of Cake
Jan 8 2021 // A subdued Carnival season began Wednesday after the coronavirus pandemic put an end to the crowd-heavy balls and street parades that draw thousands of people to the city every year. The Mardi Gras season always starts on...
Flooding Brings New Woes to New York City Church Hard-Hit by COVID-19
Jan 7 2021 // A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a major municipal water main. The...
Who’s On the Hook If COVID-19 Vaccines Go Wrong?: Viewpoint
Jan 7 2021 // The COVID-19 vaccines are here and distribution has begun. But what if something goes wrong? Whether it’s a loss of income, hefty medical bills or other serious adverse effects from getting a shot, someone has to...
1 in 100,000 Had Severe Allergic Reaction to COVID Shot: CDC
Jan 7 2021 // Roughly 1 in 100,000 people have had a severe allergic reaction to the first Covid-19 vaccine, a rate that’s higher than the flu vaccine but still quite rare, U.S. health officials said. A study by the Centers for...
COVID-19 Pressures Threaten About 4,000 Small UK Financial Firms
Jan 7 2021 // Britain’s market watchdog warned about 4,000 small financial firms are at greater risk of failure from the coronavirus as the country endures a third lockdown. The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday that the...
COVID Lawsuits by State and Key Trends in Workplace Litigation for 2021: Seyfarth
Jan 7 2021 // The coronavirus pandemic contributed to a spike in workplace lawsuits in 2020 and the number is only expected to grow in 2021, according to legal experts. At the same time, the incoming Biden Administration is expected to...
REUTERS REPORT-Regulators Ignored Workers’ COVID-19 Safety Complaints Amid Deadly Outbreaks
Jan 6 2021 // Miguel Cabezola, a driver for United Parcel Service Inc. in Tucson, Arizona, complained on March 27 to U.S. workplace safety regulators, alleging the company was taking a lax approach to social distancing, sanitizing...
British Columbia’s New COVID-19 Restrictions Disrupt Construction Projects
Jan 6 2021 // CALGARY, Alberta – Restrictions imposed by British Columbia to fight the spread of COVID-19 infections after the holiday break have disrupted work at construction sites of a Rio Tinto hydropower project and BC...
COVID-19 Business Interruption Rulings, Most Favoring Insurers, Moving to Appeals
Jan 6 2021 // A wave of litigation over business-interruption losses caused by COVID-19 shutdown orders has started splashing into the appellate courts. Appeals of trial court decisions in at least 11 lawsuits have been filed so far,...
South African Insurer Santam Accepts Liability for Some Rejected COVID-19 Claims
Jan 4 2021 // JOHANNESBURG – South African insurer Santam will begin assessing payouts for some previously rejected coronavirus-related claims after recent court judgments on such cases but still intends to challenge one finding...
How the NFL Pulled Off Playing During the Pandemic
Dec 30 2020 // It took playing games on all seven days of the week, a wide receiver starting at quarterback, numerous schedule changes and constant revisions to health and safety protocols for the NFL to reach Week 17 on...
Heavily Criticized Pennsylvania Veterans’ Home Sued Over COVID-19 Outbreak
Dec 29 2020 // A state-run veterans’ home in Pennsylvania heavily criticized for its handling of a coronavirus outbreak inside its walls drew a federal wrongful death lawsuit, filed by family members of five residents who died of...
