Best Read COVID-19 Headlines
Headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page with the most time spent reading.
#1 US Court Declines to Dismiss Mandarin Hotel COVID-19 Claim Against Insurers
Sep 25 2024 // Insurers have failed to win dismissal of a federal COVID-19 business interruption lawsuit against them by the luxury hotel chain Mandarin Oriental. Judge John P. Cronan of U.S District Court in New York found that...
#2 Philadelphia Eagles Seek to Extend Covid-19 Business Insurance Bid Into Overtime
Nov 19 2024 // The Philadelphia Eagles football organization wants to force its case for Covid-19 business interruption insurance against insurer Factory Mutual Insurance Co. into overtime, arguing that its situation is unlike any other...
#3 Scientists Concerned That a Bird Flu Pandemic Is ‘Unfolding in Slow Motion’
Jul 2 2024 // Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease...
#4 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Yanks Dentist’s COVID Insurance Coverage Win
Oct 4 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reversed lower court rulings and denied a dentist’s bid for insurance coverage for loss of use of his offices due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The high court concluded in a case...
#5 Massachusetts Appeals Court Upholds Restaurants’ COVID-19 Insurance Denial
May 21 2024 // In a ruling against an upscale restaurant chain, a Massachusetts Appeals Court has followed the recipe the state’s high court set forth in 2022 in ruling that the COVID-19 virus does not trigger business interruption...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 Federal Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Manufacturer’s COVID-19 Claims
Jul 16 2024 // A Connecticut-based manufacturer has been denied another opportunity to seek $100 million in insurance coverage for business losses it claims it sustained because of the COVID-19 virus. Amphenol Corp.– a manufacturer of...
#9 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...
#10 Texas Health System Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Suit – 5th Circuit
Jun 28 2024 // A Texas nonprofit health system who purchased a specialized commercial property insurance policy is not covered for business interruption losses caused by COVID-19, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled, relying on...
#11 North Carolina Supreme Court Says Speedway Can Sue Over COVID Closure
Aug 27 2024 // RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina racetrack, shuttered briefly for defying state gathering limits during the pandemic, can sue the top health regulator on allegations that Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration...
#12 Judge Tosses Philadelphia Eagles and 76ers Covid Loss Cases
Oct 18 2024 // Two Philadelphia professional sports team have lost their appeals over denied business interruption insurance claims tied to the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson this week dismissed lawsuits by the...
#13 California Supreme Court Resolves Question on Coverage for COVID Business Shutdowns
May 31 2024 // The California Supreme Court has resolved a question about insurance coverage for COVID-19 business shutdowns in the issue of a virus exclusion in a ruling that is consistent with the vast majority of courts nationwide:...
#14 London’s ExCel Centre Wins Insurance Appeal Over COVID-19 Losses
Sep 6 2024 // The owners of London’s ExCel conference center on Friday won an appeal brought by insurers, including Allianz, over pandemic-related losses, which its lawyers said could help thousands of other policyholders. London...
#15 COVID-19 Can Be Occupational Disease, Colorado Court Says in Worker Death Case
May 16 2024 // For the first time, a Colorado appellate court has concluded that COVID-19 can be an occupational disease that is compensable under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruling...
#16 Homeownership Costs in US Jumped 26% Since Pandemic Began
Jun 11 2024 // The cost of owning a home in the US has increased 26% since 2020, as expenses including taxes, insurance and utilities all soared during a period of high inflation across the economy. The average annual outlay for owning...
#17 Michigan Jury Awards $12M to Woman Fired for Refusing to Get COVID Vaccine
Nov 12 2024 // DETROIT (AP) — A jury awarded more than $12 million Friday to a woman who lost her job at a Michigan insurance company after declining to get a COVID-19 vaccination. Much of the award — $10 million — is for punitive...
#18 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...
#19 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,...
#20 Mars Loses Appeal to Undo Dismissal of COVID-19 Business Loss Claims
May 28 2024 // Petcare, food and candy company Mars Inc. has lost its bid to revive its claims against Factory Mutual Insurance Co. for business interruption losses it incurred during the coronavirus pandemic. The Fourth Circuit Court of...
