Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Appeals Court Dismisses 14 COVID Business Insurance Claims Against Travelers
Aug 31 2023 // The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has dismissed lawsuits by 14 businesses seeking insurance coverage from Travelers Insurance for business losses stemming from COVID-19 and the related government shutdown orders. The...
AstraZeneca Faces 2 London Lawsuits Over COVID-19 Vaccines
Aug 24 2023 // AstraZeneca is facing two London lawsuits, including one from the husband of a woman who died after receiving the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker’s COVID-19 vaccine, in the first of potentially dozens of cases brought in...
Has COVID Impacted the Way We Look at Disability Insurance?
Aug 7 2023 // The COVID-19 pandemic reshaped industries across the globe, and the disability insurance sector was no exception. As the world grappled with unprecedented challenges, carriers in this space were compelled to revolutionize...
Why Did It Take a Pandemic to Drive Electronic Placement in the London Market?
Jul 5 2023 // Electronic placing in the London market was a long time coming, with many obstacles to overcome – It took the pandemic to prove electronic placement is a benefit not a threat and, now it’s here to stay, we’re...
Report Looks at Long COVID Claims in California Workers’ Comp
Jul 3 2023 // Roughly 13% of COVID-19 claims with medical payments received treatments for long COVID symptoms in the workers’ compensation system, a new report shows. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
University of Delaware Settles Class Action Over COVID Campus Shutdown
Jun 20 2023 // The University of Delaware has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle a lawsuit over its campus shutdown in 2020 and the halting of in-person classes because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to court papers that were...
London’s Excel Centre Wins Insurance Ruling on COVID-19 Biz Interruption Losses
Jun 19 2023 // The owners of London’s ExCel conference center on Friday won a court ruling against insurers, including Royal & Sun Alliance, over pandemic-related losses, which its lawyers said could affect hundreds of...
BioNTech Faces First German Lawsuit Over Alleged COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects
Jun 12 2023 // BioNTech will go to court on Monday to defend itself against a lawsuit from a German woman who is seeking damages for alleged side effects of its COVID-19 vaccine, the first of potentially hundreds of cases in the...
Report Looks at Long COVID Claims in California Workers’ Comp
Jun 12 2023 // Roughly 13% of COVID-19 claims with medical payments received treatments for long COVID symptoms in the workers’ compensation system, a new report shows. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of...
Texas Insurance Carriers Reported Nearly 100K COVID Claims: DWC Factsheet
Jun 5 2023 // Texas insurance carriers reported nearly 100,000 COVID-19 claims and 472 fatalities to the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC), according to a factsheet released this week by DWC....
Auto Claim Severity Up 35% Over Pre-Pandemic Rates: LexisNexis Report
Jun 5 2023 // Claim severity for bodily injury and property damage increased by 35% since 2019, while collision claim severity has jumped 40%, LexisNexis Risk Solutions says in a new report. The data broker’s 2023 U.S. Auto...
Broadway Theaters, Insurer Agree to End COVID-19 Business Loss Claims
May 16 2023 // An owner of Broadway theaters and Pacific Indemnity Insurance Co. have voluntarily agreed to end their remaining litigation over COVID-19 coverage claims. Under the stipulation filed May 11, each party will bear its own...
New Hampshire High Court Rejects Cat Urine Analogy in Overturning Hotels’ COVID Insurance Win
May 15 2023 // The New Hampshire Supreme Court has overturned a trial court that had found for a group of 23 hotels claiming they were entitled to insurance payments for business interruption losses caused by contamination of their...
Illinois Governor Signs Law Giving Benefits to Chicago First Responders Disabled by COVID
May 12 2023 // Gov. J.B. Pritzker this week signed a law providing full disability benefits to Chicago police officers and firefighters struck by COVID-19 before vaccines were available, presiding over an emotional statehouse ceremony...
Auto Claim Severity Up 35% over Pre-Pandemic Rates – LexisNexis Report
May 12 2023 // Claim severity for bodily injury and property damage increased by 35% since 2019, while collision claim severity has jumped 40%, LexisNexis Risk Solutions says in a new report. The data broker’s 2023 U.S. Auto...
Court Upholds Denial of Widow’s COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Death Claim
May 2 2023 // The widow of a man who died from COVID-19 has been denied workers’ compensation benefits because she failed to prove that the death was work-related. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York on May 1...
Virginia Workers’ Compensation Review Panel Clarifies COVID-19 Presumption
May 2 2023 // Virginia’s statutory presumption that a COVID-19 disability of a first responder is work-related, which went into effect July 1, 2020, does not require that the employee be diagnosed with COVID-19 on or after that...
Court Reinstates Criminal Charges Against Veterans’ Home Officials Over COVID Policies
May 1 2023 // Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge Thursday and reinstated criminal neglect charges against two top former officials at a veterans’ home. Nearly 80 veterans died at the Veterans’...
California Church Paying $1.2M over Broken COVID Rules
Apr 17 2023 // A California church that defied safety regulations during the COVID-19 pandemic by holding large, unmasked religious services must pay $1.2 million in fines, a judge has ruled. Calvary Chapel in San Jose was fined last...
How Covid-19 Transformed the Insurance Industry
Apr 14 2023 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Across the insurance distribution channel, everyone from the largest carriers to individual insurance consumers have witnessed a “digital transformation” to...
