Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
M&A Insurance Rates Nearly Double After Explosion of Dealmaking During Pandemic
Dec 20 2021 // The cost of insurance to cover problems involving M&A has nearly doubled in just two years, underwriters and brokers said, after an explosion of global dealmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential buyers take out...
Returning to the Office During a Pandemic
Dec 20 2021 // There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impact on the workforce. It has caused millions of businesses and employees to shift to a virtual work environment. But as the COVID-19 vaccine...
National Insurance Industry Council Pressed on Through Pandemic to Help City of Hope
Dec 20 2021 // Insurance and fundraising are both people-facing endeavors, so one would think that COVID-19, with all of its lockdowns and distancing, would have killed the giving spirit for a charitable group like the National Insurance...
The COVID Era: Finding Opportunity in Times of Hardship
Dec 20 2021 // The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t a short-term event. That’s obvious. But the question should no longer be — “when will it end?” As a practical matter, it’s not going to end. When we ask the...
Court OKs Biden Covid Vaccine Mandate for Employers; Supreme Court Appeal Likely
Dec 19 2021 // A federal appeals court panel on Friday allowed President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for larger private employers to move ahead, reversing a previous decision on a requirement that could affect some 84...
Amid COVID, Insurance Regulation Remains Profitable
Dec 19 2021 // This post is part of an Insurance Journal blog presenting the work and viewpoints of The International Center for Law & Economics. The COVID-19 pandemic hit state budgets particularly hard in 2020, with a $24.11...
Millions of Migrants Can’t Get COVID Vaccines Because of Drugmakers’ Liability Fears
Dec 16 2021 // BRUSSELS/BANGKOK – Tens of millions of migrants may be denied COVID-19 vaccines from a global program because some major manufacturers are worried about legal risks from harmful side effects, according to officials and...
London Turns Into Ghost Town as UK Faces Record-Breaking Wave of COVID Infections
Dec 16 2021 // The owner of Parlez, a pub and restaurant in south London, hoped that sales this Christmas would have bounced back fully from last winter’s COVID-19 lockdown. Instead, every one of this week’s group...
Workers’ Comp Bureau of California Issues COVID-19 Analysis
Dec 16 2021 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California in collaboration with several other workers’ comp rating bureaus released the COVID-19’s Impact on Workers Compensation report. To better...
NFL Requiring Coaches, Team Staffs to Get COVID-19 Boosters; Players Exempt
Dec 15 2021 // The NFL is requiring coaches, front-office staff and team personnel to receive a COVID-19 booster by Dec. 27. In a memo sent to teams on Monday and obtained by The Associated Press, the league said: “Given the...
EEOC Addresses When COVID-19 May Be a Disability Requiring Accommodation
Dec 15 2021 // An applicant or employee whose COVID-19 results in mild symptoms that resolve in a few weeks—with no other consequences—will not have a disability that could make someone eligible to receive a reasonable accommodation,...
M&A Insurance Rates Nearly Double After Explosion of Dealmaking During Pandemic
Dec 10 2021 // The cost of insurance to cover problems involving M&A has nearly doubled in just two years, underwriters and brokers said, after an explosion of global dealmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Potential buyers take out...
Norwegian Cruise Ship Outside New Orleans Reports COVID Outbreak
Dec 6 2021 // Ten people aboard a Norwegian Cruise Line ship approaching New Orleans have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said over the weekend. The Norwegian Breakaway had departed New Orleans on Nov. 28 and is due to return...
Why Millions Have Left Workforce During Pandemic
Dec 6 2021 // Approximately five million people in the U.S. are unemployed or have left the workforce since the pandemic began, and it is difficult to predict whether their decision was short term or permanent. According to S&P...
Report: California Workers’ Comp Covid Claim Volume Trending Down After Summer Surge
Dec 6 2021 // The summer surge of COVID-19 claims that hit the California workers’ compensation system in July and August appears to have run its course, according to the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. A CWCI...
Update on Court Challenges to Biden Covid Vaccine Rules
Dec 2 2021 // Courts have recently blocked some of the Biden administration’s rules and regulations aimed at increasing U.S. vaccination against COVID-19, which has killed more than 750,000 Americans and weighs on economic...
Despite COVID, Comp Claims and Severity Declined in 2020, NCCI Says
Dec 1 2021 // The disease known as COVID-19 may have caused wrenching changes around the world, but its effects on workers’ compensation claims were relatively minor in 2020, the National Council on Compensation Insurance said in...
Labor Group Calls for Probe of Amazon’s Reporting of Covid Cases at Facilities
Dec 1 2021 // Amazon.com Inc. provided “misleading or grossly incomplete” data about the number of Covid-19 infections potentially spread in its U.S. facilities, according to a labor group calling on the federal government...
Tennessee Approves 5.6% Cut in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs; COVID Impact Uncertain
Nov 30 2021 // The Tennessee commissioner of commerce and insurance has ratified a 5.6% decrease in workers’ compensation loss costs for voluntary market in 2022, which will result in the ninth straight year of rate decreases for...
Florida Bill Would Extend COVID Liability Protection for Health Workers
Nov 29 2021 // A Florida Senate committee has drafted a bill that would extend health care providers’ COVID-19 liability protection for another 14 months. Committee Chair Sen. Danny Burgess The Legislature in 2021 created the...
