Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
City of London Financial Center Likely to See Most Workers Return After Pandemic
Mar 31 2021 // LONDON – The City of London financial center, which has resembled a ghost town since the coronavirus swept the world last year, is likely to see most workers return to their offices after the pandemic, the City’s...
Florida Lawmakers Send COVID-19 Liability Protection Bill to Governor
Mar 29 2021 // Florida businesses, governments and healthcare providers will be protected from coronavirus lawsuits if they made a good effort to follow guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 under a bill the House sent to...
Caesars in Nevada Puts Pandemic Losses At $2B, Wants Insurers to Pay
Mar 29 2021 // Casino giant Caesars Entertainment Inc. is putting its losses because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 at more than $2 billion, and is suing a long list of insurance carriers it accuses of balking at paying its business...
W. Virginia Enacts COVID Liability Protections for Employers, Health Care Providers
Mar 25 2021 // West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has signed a bill that protects employers, health care providers and others from being sued due to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill offers protection from COVID-19 lawsuits even if public...
Arkansas Governor Vetoes Bill to Refund Businesses’ Coronavirus Fines
Mar 24 2021 // Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has vetoed legislation requiring the state to refund fines imposed on businesses violating coronavirus safety rules, as the state’s virus cases and hospitalizations continued to drop. The...
AstraZeneca to Publish Full COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial Results on Efficacy
Mar 24 2021 // AstraZeneca will publish up-to-date results from its major U.S. COVID-19 vaccine trial within 48 hours after health officials publicly criticized the drugmaker for using “outdated information” to show how well...
U.S. Oversight Board Questions AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine Data
Mar 23 2021 // AstraZeneca may have released outdated information on its latest COVID-19 vaccine trial, giving an “incomplete” picture of its efficacy, a leading U.S. health agency said on Tuesday, casting doubt on the...
P/C Insurers Improved Profitability in Year of Coronavirus: AM Best
Mar 22 2021 // Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry improved its overall profitability in 2020, with a 68% increase in net underwriting income and combined ratio that improved slightly over the...
Transactional Risk Insurance Hits Record High Despite Pandemic: Marsh Report
Mar 22 2021 // After a dramatic downturn in the second quarter of 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, merger and acquisition (M&A) deal volume soared to record highs in the second half of the year. This was mirrored in growth of...
Pandemic Losses for P/C Insurers Will Take Years to Determine: Fitch
Mar 22 2021 // Incurred pandemic losses for U.S. property/casualty insurers increased only modestly in fourth quarter of 2020 from earlier quarters in the year. Still, the amount of ultimate losses remains unclear and will take several...
Risk on Tap for Craft Brewers in a Pandemic World
Mar 22 2021 // Over the past decade, the craft brewing industry has been thriving. From big cities to small towns, niche breweries are growing into cult favorites or mainstream staples, and small taprooms are growing into brewpubs. You...
Insurance Industry Got Closer to Manufacturing Clients During Pandemic
Mar 22 2021 // The U.S. manufacturing industry is on the rebound from effects of the global pandemic-driven shutdown more than a year ago. While U.S. industrial production and U.S. total factory orders fell substantially in April 2020,...
IICF Gala Went on Despite Pandemic, USC Risk Management Program Honored
Mar 19 2021 // More than 200 guests joined the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Western Division for the virtual Horizon Award Gala on Thursday. Due to the pandemic, this year’s IICF gala, an event that often requires...
Reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre Canceled Again – on Pandemic Concerns
Mar 19 2021 // The organizers of the reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) have decided to cancel this year’s conference as a result of the ongoing public health crisis caused by the pandemic. “The pandemic is ongoing,...
South Korea Defends Mandatory COVID Testing of Foreign Workers
Mar 18 2021 // SEOUL- Authorities in the South Korean capital defended on Thursday a decision to order coronavirus tests for all foreign workers on penalty of fines, as calls grew for the controversial measure to be rescinded. At least...
Employment Practices Insurance in Age of COVID, Vaccines, Shutdowns and Hard Market
Mar 18 2021 // Overall trends for the past 30 years in the employment practices liability insurance market have been influenced by society and culture. As concerns over racial and disability discrimination, sexual harassment, gender...
EU Threatens to Ban COVID Vaccine Exports to Britain
Mar 18 2021 // BRUSSELS – The European Union threatened on Wednesday to ban exports of COVID-19 vaccines to Britain to safeguard scarce doses for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic that would jeopardize plans to...
Passengers Recall COVID Deaths, Confusion, Quarantine Aboard Cruise Ships
Mar 17 2021 // SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The last vacation Margrit and Lucio Gonzalez took together began with an ominous delay: a medical emergency on the cruise ship they were set to board. After a four-hour wait, the couple of 51...
Oliver Wyman Predicts COVID Herd Immunity for U.S. by Mid-Summer
Mar 16 2021 // The U.S. will reach herd immunity threshold when more than 71% of the U.S. population has been exposed to COVID or effectively vaccinated against it, most likely by mid-summer, says a management consultant firm that has...
Florida Senate Weighs Legal Immunity Against COVID Lawsuits
Mar 16 2021 // A measure that would shield businesses from COVID-related lawsuits could make it before the Florida Senate later this week, providing another key test for a measure that supporters assert will protect against frivolous...
