Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
University Insured Chinese Student Tuition Revenue Against Virus. Then COVID-19 Hit.
Aug 17 2020 // After becoming dean of the University of Illinois business school in 2015, Jeffrey Brown worried that politics or a virus would choke off a major source of revenue for his school: Chinese graduate students. So, in 2017,...
West Virginia Halts Nursing Home Visits as Virus Cases, Deaths Surge
Aug 17 2020 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday halted nursing home visits as both confirmed cases and deaths from the new coronavirus continue to surge. Justice said at a news conference that there are virus outbreaks...
U.S. Approves ‘Groundbreaking’ Yale COVID-19 Saliva Test for Emergency Use
Aug 17 2020 // The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Saturday granted emergency use authorization to Yale School of Public Health’s saliva test to detect COVID-19, after a trial on National Basketball Association players and...
Judge Tosses Texas Barbershops’ Suit Against Insurer Over Coronavirus Losses
Aug 16 2020 // A federal judge has agreed with an insurer that a group of barbershops in the San Antonio, Texas-area have no basis for claims seeking coverage under their commercial insurance policies for business interruption losses...
Duck Creek Shares Jump; Coronavirus Drives Insurance Technology Demand
Aug 16 2020 // Shares of Duck Creek Technologies Inc. soared on their Nasdaq debut on Friday, after the software company serving the property and casualty insurance market raised $405 million in its upsized initial public offering...
Drugmakers Shielded from COVID Vaccine Liability But Funds for Injury Claims in Doubt
Aug 14 2020 // Americans who suffer adverse reactions to coronavirus vaccines that the U.S. is racing to develop will have a hard time getting compensated for injuries from the drugs. That’s because pandemic-related claims for...
Consolidation of COVID Business Loss Suits Denied; But Grouping by Insurer Eyed
Aug 13 2020 // The legal panel on multidistrict litigation (MDL) has denied a proposal to consolidate cases brought by multiple businesses against various insurers for coronavirus-related business losses. The U.S. Judicial Panel on...
Analysis: Megacities Face Great Upheavals as They Seek to Cut Virus Transmission
Aug 13 2020 // Like all pandemics, COVID-19 is not an accidental or random event, Frank Snowden argues in his magisterial history “Epidemics and society: from the Black Death to the present.” “Epidemics afflict...
Disney World Settles With Actors Over COVID-Testing
Aug 13 2020 // Walt Disney World actors, who argued that the Florida theme park’s proposed coronavirus safeguards were inadequate to protect them, have resolved a dispute over COVID-19 testing, a union statement said on...
Federal Reserve Policymakers See Slow Economic Growth Until Virus Contained
Aug 13 2020 // The U.S. economic recovery will be slow until the coronavirus is under control, and Americans will have to manage life with the virus for at least the next several months, three Federal Reserve policymakers said on...
Indianapolis: Fines Coming for Businesses that Violate Virus Rules
Aug 12 2020 // Indianapolis businesses not following the city’s coronavirus restrictions will face a greater chance of fines as officials said on Aug. 11 that they will ramp up enforcement. State health officials added 25 more...
Judge Allows Businesses’ Lawsuits Against Insurer Over Coronavirus Losses
Aug 12 2020 // A federal judge in Missouri said on Wednesday a group of hair salons and restaurants can sue their insurance carrier for business interruption losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which they say caused a...
Analysis: Louisiana Nursing Homes Have Coronavirus Vulnerability from Staff
Aug 12 2020 // As Louisiana tries to protect vulnerable nursing home residents from coronavirus outbreaks, the facilities still have a significant source of risk for new infections. Hundreds of employees coming and going each day have...
Oklahoma Lawmaker to Study COVID-19 Impact on Employment, Wages
Aug 12 2020 // A state lawmaker in Oklahoma is launching an interim study on how COVID-19 has affected employment and wages in that state. State Rep. Forrest Bennett, D-OKC, said in a media release that he hopes to focus the study on...
Australia Detains Cargo Ships for Alleged Labor Violations Related to COVID Lockdowns
Aug 12 2020 // Australian authorities detained at least two cargo ships for alleged labor violations related to demands from seafarers to be sent home, some of whom have spent more than a year at sea. The ships, which are or will be...
Ralph Lauren Suit Alleges Fraud by Insurer Refusing to Cover Coronavirus Losses
Aug 11 2020 // Fashion firm Ralph Lauren Corp. is suing its insurer to recoup what it says has been a huge drop of two-thirds of its revenues in the first quarter alone due to the pandemic. Ralph Lauren Corp. (RLC) maintains that Factory...
COVID-19 a Growing Share of Shrinking Work Comp Claims in 2 States
Aug 11 2020 // COVID-19 has become a large chunk of a dwindling number of workers’ compensation claims in Florida and California, limited data shows. The number of COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims reported in California...
California Coronavirus Cases Hit 554K
Aug 11 2020 // The number of COVID-19 cases in California stood at 554,160 cases Sunday, according to state health department officials. The California Department of Public Health said in a release that there have been 8,826,119 tests...
McConnell’s Coronavirus Liability Shield Could Be Bargaining Chip in Relief Negotiations
Aug 11 2020 // Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s insistence that legal liability protections for businesses, schools and colleges be included in any new coronavirus relief bill is approaching a moment of reckoning. Warning...
Lloyd’s Selects 10 Insurtechs for Its Innovation Accelerator, Focusing on COVID-19 Risks
Aug 11 2020 // The Lloyd’s re/insurance market announced the latest cohort of insurtech disruptors that will join its Lloyd’s Lab innovation accelerator program with a focus on COVID-19 products and solutions. The insurtechs...
