Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
HUB Employee in California Suing Firm for Discrimination During Pandemic Lockdown
Jul 10 2020 // A former insurance account executive in California has filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired from her job in retaliation for complaining about discrimination against her by a supervisor who didn’t like her caring...
Louisiana Governor Signs Law Protecting Schools from Most Virus Lawsuits
Jul 10 2020 // Louisiana’s K-12 schools and colleges will be shielded from most civil lawsuits if a student or teacher contracts the COVID-19 disease caused by the coronavirus under a bill that Gov. John Bel Edwards signed into law...
University Researchers Claim Air Filter ‘Catches and Kills’ the Coronavirus
Jul 10 2020 // Researchers from the University of Houston, in collaboration with others, have designed a “catch and kill” air filter that they say can trap the virus responsible for COVID-19, killing it instantly. Zhifeng...
It Took Coronavirus Pandemic to Settle Bayer’s Roundup Suits: Viewpoint
Jul 10 2020 // In late June, Bayer AG agreed to pay $9.5 billion to settle about 100,000 lawsuits that accused Roundup, the popular herbicide it acquired when it bought Monsanto in 2018, of causing non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The settlement...
South Africa Regulator Warns Insurers to Stop Broad Rejection of Virus Claims
Jul 10 2020 // A South African regulator warned insurers to stop broadly rejecting claims from businesses seeking to cover losses because of a lockdown to curb the coronavirus. “The Financial Sector Conduct Authority is concerned...
Nashville Bars Seek Restraining Order Over Coronavirus Restrictions
Jul 10 2020 // Some Nashville bar owners are seeking a temporary restraining order against city officials in an effort to push back against coronavirus restrictions. Bar owners Timothy Stephen Smith and Geoffrey Reid filed the lawsuit...
Coronavirus Crisis Heightens Insurers’ Caution About Senior Care Market
Jul 10 2020 // The coronavirus pandemic has made it even harder for senior-care centers in the United States to find or afford standard liability insurance, with rates soaring by as much as 300%, insurance brokers said. Residential care...
Best: Reinsurance Pricing, Pandemic Add to Woes for Florida Property Insurers
Jul 9 2020 // The numerous issues in Florida’s property insurance market, including higher reinsurance pricing and social inflation, continue to challenge the financial strength of Florida personal property writers and impact...
Missouri Won’t Shut Down Summer Camps Despite Virus Outbreaks
Jul 9 2020 // Missouri leaders knew the risk of convening thousands of kids at summer camps across the state during a pandemic, the state’s top health official said, and insisted that camp organizers have plans in place to keep an...
13 Hawaiian Airlines Employees Test Positive for COVID-19
Jul 9 2020 // Hawaiian Airlines Inc. says 13 of its employees have tested positive for the coronavirus following an annual training course. The employees who tested positive for COVID-19 took part in flight attendant training at the...
Profile: MGA Nexus Group Sets Sights on U.S. Growth, Even During COVID-19 Crisis
Jul 9 2020 // Nexus Group, the UK-based managing general agent, is looking to the U.S. for growth opportunities, despite the raging COVID-19 crisis. “With the political landscape and Brexit, it was an obvious choice for us to...
Chubb Unveils Public-Private Program for Pandemic Business Interruption
Jul 9 2020 // Chubb unveiled a proposal for the insurance industry and federal government to partner on covering future pandemic-related business interruptions—and to get money to small businesses quickly—following through on an...
Sanity Trial in Maryland Newspaper Shooting Postponed Amid Pandemic
Jul 9 2020 // Court proceedings to determine criminal sanity for a man who pleaded guilty to killing five people at Maryland newspaper have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jarrod Ramos’ pre-trial hearings have...
Litigation Funding Firm’s Profit Outlook Brightens on Coronavirus Disputes
Jul 9 2020 // Analysts have rapidly lifted their earnings forecasts for a global litigation financier on expectations that the pandemic could spark more legal disputes. Forward consensus earnings estimates for Sydney-listed Omni...
Coronavirus Business Interruption Claimants Lay Out Federal Plan to Reimburse Insurers
Jul 9 2020 // A U.S. lawmaker has introduced a bill that would allow insurers to voluntarily pay certain COVID-related business interruption claims and get reimbursed by the federal government, but insurance groups have rejected the...
Lawsuit Accuses Georgia Sheriff of Failing to Protect Inmates from Coronavirus
Jul 8 2020 // Overcrowded cells, a lack of personal protective equipment and limited access to cleaning and sanitation supplies are putting people in a Georgia jail at risk of exposure to the coronavirus outbreak, a federal lawsuit...
Arkansas Bar Linked to Virus Cases Forced to Close
Jul 8 2020 // Arkansas health officials have shut down a Little Rock bar after tracing it to a cluster of coronavirus cases and finding the business wasn’t complying with virus safety measures. The Department of Health on Saturday...
81,000 Arizona Businesses Get Coronavirus Loans
Jul 8 2020 // Just over 81,000 Arizona small businesses were approved for loans worth $8.6 billion under a government program meant to keep people employed during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released Monday by the federal...
Circus Circus Sues AIG in Nevada over Rejected Coronavirus Claim
Jul 8 2020 // Circus Circus Hotel and Casino has filed a lawsuit against AIG Specialty Insurance Co. alleging that AIG wrongfully denied coverage for the company’s losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit was filed...
Generali Offers Remote Facility Inspection for Firms Coping with COVID-19 Travel Bans
Jul 8 2020 // Generali’s P&C unit Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) Iberia & LatAm has developed a new system for remote facility inspection to address the consequences of COVID-19 and to provide value-added...
