Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
31% of Workers Filing COVID Claims Suffer Long-Term, but Rate Declining: New York Fund
Feb 10 2023 // A report released this month by New York State Insurance Fund found that 31% of workers who filed claims for COVID-19 continued medical treatment or took time off work more than 60 days after the initial...
New York City Ending Covid-19 Vaccination Mandate for City Employees
Feb 8 2023 // New York City, which once had the nation’s strictest workplace vaccination rules for COVID-19, is ending one of its last such mandates, saying it will no longer require the shots for municipal employees including...
Connecticut Supreme Court Upholds Insurers in Two Covid-19 Business Loss Appeals
Jan 31 2023 // The Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld insurers in two cases where claims for business interruption losses blamed on Covid-19 were denied because there was no direct physical damage. One case involved healthcare...
‘American Horror Story’ TV Production Firms Sued Over Driver’s COVID Death
Jan 12 2023 // The wife of a late Massachusetts man is suing the companies involved in the 2021 production of “American Horror Story” on Cape Cod, alleging their lack of precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 led to...
5th Circuit Rejects La. Restaurant’s COVID-19 Business-Interruption Claim
Jan 11 2023 // The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday against a New Orleans restaurant’s claim for business interruption losses after the restaurant could not prove direct and sole cause by an accidental contamination of...
Thailand Mandates COVID Insurance for Visitors From Some Nations
Jan 5 2023 // Thailand is mandating Covid insurance for foreign visitors from countries that require negative RT-PCR test results before returning home, reinstating the entry rule ahead of the likely arrival of Chinese tourists in large...
Tory Peer-Linked Firm Supplied Unsafe Gowns During COVID, Health Department Alleges
Jan 5 2023 // The controversial firm linked to a Tory peer supplied 25 million protective gowns that were unusable and failed safety tests during the pandemic in 2020, the UK’s health department alleged in a lawsuit seeking to...
Judge Sends Philadelphia Eagles, 76ers Covid Insurance Ruling Into Overtime
Dec 21 2022 // Rather than rule on them, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has allowed similar Covid-19 business insurance cases brought by owners of the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia 76ers sports teams against their insurers to...
Maryland High Court Joins Others in Backing Insurer in Covid-19 Claims Denial
Dec 19 2022 // The Maryland Supreme Court has backed an insurer in rejecting a luxury brand company’s claim that its all-risk commercial property insurance policy should cover its Covid-19 business losses. The ruling is in accord...
California Occupational Safety Board Votes to Adopt COVID Prevention Regulations
Dec 19 2022 // The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has adopted COVID-19 prevention non-emergency regulations. The COVID-19 prevention emergency temporary standards will continue to remain in effect while the...
Ohio Supreme Court: No Coverage Owed for COVID Business Shutdown
Dec 13 2022 // The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that COVID-19 cannot cause any direct physical damage or loss that is covered by a commercial property insurance policy, joining nine other state high courts that have rejected similar...
