Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ignited by Pandemic Changes, Insurers Embraced Innovation
Apr 5 2023 // The pandemic kickstarted the new wave of accepting and using innovative systems and methods in the insurance industry. It opened eyes to the ways that innovations and technology could do more than just efficiently get the...
University Faces Class-Action by Students Over COVID Campus Lockdown
Apr 5 2023 // A lawsuit against the University of Delaware over its campus shutdown and halting of in-person classes because of coronavirus can proceed as a class action on behalf of thousands of students who were enrolled and paid...
Louisiana Supreme Court Reverses, Finds No Coverage Owed for COVID Shutdown
Apr 3 2023 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has joined state high courts across the nation in rejecting a policyholder’s business-interruption claim for income lost because of government restrictions imposed to slow the spread of...
Texas Department of Insurance Updates COVID Data Call Results
Mar 31 2023 // The Texas Department of Insurance Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) updated COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims data, with insurance carriers reporting 98,000 COVID-19 claims and 468 fatalities through...
Texas Luxury Auto Dealership Fined $15K for Firing Employee Who Raised COVID Concerns
Mar 29 2023 // When an employee of a luxury auto dealership in Austin learned a co-worker had tested positive for COVID-19 in December 2020, they alerted the company’s management and requested they notify other employees...
Louisiana Supreme Ct. Reverses, Rejects Coverage for COVID Shutdown
Mar 21 2023 // The Louisiana Supreme Court has joined state high courts across the nation in rejecting a policyholder’s business-interruption claim for income lost because of government restrictions imposed to slow the spread of...
California Care Home Charged in Connection With COVID Deaths
Mar 20 2023 // A Southern California residential care home company and three of its managers have been charged in connection with 14 COVID-related deaths at one of its facilities three years ago, prosecutors said. The criminal complaint...
8th Circuit: COVID Stay-at-Home Orders Did Not ‘Quarantine’ Skiers
Mar 20 2023 // Government orders that restricted access to non-essential businesses during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were not “quarantines” that require a travel insurer to reimburse policyholders who did not...
Alabama Senate Panel Wants $1B in Pandemic Relief for Infrastructure, Broadband
Mar 17 2023 // Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a House-passed plan to use the state’s final $1 billion in federal pandemic relief funds largely on a mix of water and sewer infrastructure, broadband expansion and health care...
California Care Home Charged in Connection With COVID Deaths
Mar 16 2023 // A Southern California residential care home company and three of its managers have been charged in connection with 14 COVID-related deaths at one of its facilities three years ago, prosecutors said. The criminal complaint...
Arkansas Tyson Workers Sue Over Lack of COVID Precautions
Mar 10 2023 // Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-packing plants during the early days of the...
Michigan Conservative Group Will Get Reward for Suing Over COVID-19 Loans
Mar 8 2023 // MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) – A conservative economic-policy group will get a $22,500 reward for blowing the whistle on a Michigan teachers union and its insurance arm, which got $12.5 million in government-backed loans...
Show Must Go On for Broadway Theaters’ Covid Loss Claim, Federal Judge Rules
Mar 8 2023 // A New York federal judge has refused to lower the curtain on a Covid-19 business loss claim by the owner of five Broadway theaters because the entertainment insurance policy language is ambiguous as to whether the theater...
Families Sue Over Covid-19 Deaths at Chelsea Veterans Home
Mar 3 2023 // The families of three residents of a veterans’ care facility in Massachusetts who died after contracting COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic say in federal lawsuit that the deaths were “premature and...
Federal Court Denies Massachusetts Hospital’s Covid-19 Business Insurance Claim
Mar 1 2023 // A Massachusetts hospital has been denied its insurance claim for Covid-19 related costs and lost revenues under business interruption and disease contamination provisions of its property insurance policy. U.S. District...
California’s Final State Emergencies Winding Down 3 Years Into Pandemic
Mar 1 2023 // California’s coronavirus emergency officially ended Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation’s first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim...
Federal Appeals Court Upholds Denial of ITT’s Covid-19 Insurance Claims
Feb 24 2023 // Global corporation ITT has again been denied coverage under its “all-risk” policy for business costs and losses it sustained due to Covid-19. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling by the...
Texas Dental Practice to Pay Back Wages to Workers Fired for Raising COVID Concerns
Feb 23 2023 // Two workers at a North Texas dental practice will share $15,706 in back wages to be paid by the dentists who fired them for raising concerns about COVID-19 safety measures in Spring 2020, following a federal whistleblower...
Madison Square Garden Loses Appeal of Covid-19 Insurance Claim Dismissal
Feb 23 2023 // A New York appeals court last week upheld the dismissal of Madison Square Garden’s Covid-19 business interruption claim against Factory Mutual Insurance Co. The court agreed with a New York County court’s...
Nurse Practitioner Claims Have Increased Since 2017 but COVID Effect Yet to Play Out
Feb 14 2023 // The distribution and severity of nurse practitioner (NP) office practice setting claims have increased sharply since 2017, according to a new report from CNA in collaboration with its business partners at Nurses Service...
