Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Peloton Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Post-Pandemic Outlook
Aug 28 2025 // Peloton Interactive must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by masking excess inventory of its home exercise equipment as the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic passed, a divided federal appeals court ruled on...
North Carolina Supreme Court Says Bars’ COVID Lawsuits Against State Can Continue
Aug 25 2025 // The North Carolina Supreme Court issued favorable rulings Friday for bars and their operators in litigation seeking monetary compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions first issued by then-Gov. Roy Cooper that...
Qantas Airways Fined $59M for Illegal Pandemic Layoffs
Aug 19 2025 // A judge on Monday fined Qantas Airways 90 million Australian dollars ($59 million) for illegally firing more than 1,800 ground staff at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The penalty is in addition to the A$120 million...
Midwest Healthcare Company to Pay $1M in COVID Vaccine Mandate Case
Aug 14 2025 // Mercyhealth, a health care system operating hospitals and clinics in Illinois and Wisconsin, agreed to pay more than $1 million in monetary relief to a class of employees and has offered to reinstate employees that it...
CDC Shooter Believed COVID Vaccine Made Him Suicidal, Father Tells Police
Aug 12 2025 // A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for...
Report: Long COVID Accounted for Nearly 74% of California Comp Virus Payments
Jun 3 2025 // Long COVID cases accounted for 82.1% of the treatment payments on COVID claims and 73.7% of all COVID-19 claim payments in California’s workers’ compensation system, according to a study. The study from the...
Nurse Showed COVID Was Work-Contracted, West Virginia Supreme Court Rules
May 29 2025 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled 3-2 that a prison nurse is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for her COVID-19 disease because she provided sufficient evidence that she contracted it in her...
Massachusetts High Court Upholds Workers’ Comp for Utility Worker’s COVID
Apr 16 2025 // An insurer erred in denying workers’ compensation benefits to a utility worker who contracted COVID-19 while on the job, a job the state had deemed as “essential” during the pandemic. The insurer had...
NC Supreme Court Says Family Can Sue Schools, Docs Over Unwanted COVID Shot
Mar 24 2025 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina mother and son can sue a public school system and a doctors’ group on allegations they gave the boy a COVID-19 vaccine without consent, the state Supreme Court ruled on Friday,...
UK Corporate Distress at Level Last Seen Post-COVID, Report Says
Mar 13 2025 // Distress among UK companies has risen for a third consecutive year, to its highest level since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal. A&M found that 11.2% of...
COVID-Like Bat Virus Discovered by Researchers in Chinese Lab
Feb 24 2025 // Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19. This virus hasn’t been detected in...
Carnegie Mellon to Pay Students $4.8M for Shifting to Remote Classes During COVID
Feb 20 2025 // Carnegie Mellon University has agreed to pay $4.8 million to settle a class action brought on behalf of students whose in-person classes were moved online when the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. The proposed settlement...
Michigan Insurer In Talks to Settle Lawsuits Over Fired Workers and COVID-19 Vaccine
Feb 18 2025 // A major Michigan insurance company is in talks to possibly settle more than 100 lawsuits by employees who were fired after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination, court records show. The disclosure comes three months...
Cal/OSHA Ends COVID Prevention Non-Emergency Standards
Feb 11 2025 // California has ended enforcement of its COVID-19 nonemergency standards. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health announced the expiration of its COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Standards as of February....
Florida Grand Jury Finds No Criminal Activity With COVID Vaccine Development
Jan 9 2025 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A statewide grand jury convened at the request of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to investigate “any and all wrongdoing” concerning COVID-19 vaccines did not find any evidence of criminal...
Germany’s BioNTech Settles With US Agency, UPenn Over COVID Vaccine Royalties
Dec 27 2024 // BioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania over the payment of royalties related to its COVID-19 vaccine, the company said in...
Ruling on Field Stands: Philadelphia Eagles Denied COVID-19 Insurance Claim
Dec 16 2024 // The Philadelphia Eagles football team has lost its bid for federal court reconsideration of the dismissal of the team’s claim for insurance coverage for COVID-19 losses. The Eagles tossed a red flag in November after...
NC Supreme Court Bucks Trend, Finds COVID Caused Physical Loss to Restaurants
Dec 16 2024 // Courts across the country have overwhelmingly ruled in favor of insurance carriers in claims disputes following the government-ordered closures of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The North Carolina Supreme Court...
Future Pandemic Could Cause $13.6 Trillion in Economic Losses Over 5 Years: Lloyd’s
Dec 11 2024 // Another human pandemic could cause economic losses of $13.6 trillion for the global economy over a five-year period, commercial insurance market Lloyd’s of London predicted. The impact would mainly be from disruption...
West Haven Gains $1 Million From Insurance for Employees’ Theft of Covid Funds
Dec 2 2024 // The Connecticut city of West Haven said it is being reimbursed more than $1 million from its insurer to cover the cost of federal pandemic relief funds stolen three years ago by two city employees. Then-state Rep. Michael...
