Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Exclusive: How P/C Insurance Pros Are Faring Working From Home During Pandemic
Jun 25 2020 // According to Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, there’s no place like home. For many in the property/casualty insurance industry, home is where their job has been during the pandemic. While millions of people in other...
100s of Virus Deaths Draw Focus on Missouri Nursing Home Industry
Jun 24 2020 // After years of failed attempts, advocates for nursing home residents this year won approval of legislation that allows families to install surveillance cameras in residents’ rooms. The measure, backers say, will help...
Texas Governor Urges Masks as Virus Cases Rise
Jun 24 2020 // Texas’ surging coronavirus numbers will not slow the state’s reopening, according to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has prescribed an emphasis on face coverings and social distancing to curtail sobering...
Legal Liability and Requiring COVID Masks
Jun 24 2020 // States are in various stages of reopening following months of COVID-19 lock downs. As the states progress through the phases, businesses are making key decisions regarding masks, should masks be required or optional? Some...
Minor League Baseball Teams Sue Insurers for Coronavirus Business Income Losses
Jun 24 2020 // Fifteen U.S. minor league baseball teams on Tuesday sued several insurers for not paying out claims for business interruption losses after the cancellation of “much or all” of the league’s season as a...
Bullying and Harassment Increase for Some Workers in Pandemic Lockdown: Opinion
Jun 23 2020 // Working from home should have liberated employees from toxic workplace behavior such as bullying and harassment. Amid the lockdowns, gone are undesired office encounters, business trips, round-the-clock conferences and...
In U.S., 1 in 4 COVID-19 Deaths Are Residents of Nursing Homes
Jun 22 2020 // Nursing home residents account for nearly 1 in 10 of all the coronavirus cases in the United States and more than a quarter of the deaths, according to an Associated Press analysis of government data released Thursday. As...
China Says Food Unlikely to Be Cause of New Virus Outbreak, but Blocks Tyson Imports
Jun 22 2020 // China suspended poultry imports from a Tyson Foods Inc. plant where hundreds of employees tested positive for Covid-19, stoking concerns over the broader implications for U.S. and global meat exports. All products from the...
UK Insurer Saga Refunds £44M to Customers on COVID-19 Travel Interruptions
Jun 22 2020 // Saga has refunded 44 million pounds ($54.45 million) of advance payments to customers whose travel was interrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, the British over-50s holidays and insurance specialist said on Monday. The...
Governor Signs Louisiana Bills Shielding Businesses from Virus Lawsuits
Jun 22 2020 // Louisiana businesses are receiving state protection from most lawsuits involving COVID-19 deaths or injuries, after Gov. John Bel Edwards signed into law a package of measures that provides the sweeping liability...
Colleges Asking Returning Athletes to Sign COVID-19 Risk Forms
Jun 22 2020 // Ohio State calls it the Buckeye Acknowledgment and Pledge, a two-page document the school asked its athletes to sign before they could begin using team facilities during the pandemic. The document SMU is requiring its...
AI-Powered Supply Chain Software in Demand Amid Coronavirus Disruption
Jun 19 2020 // For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows them to track all their suppliers in a way that minimizes risks in operating globally spread...
Tennessee House Lawmakers Advance Broad Coronavirus Liability Protection
Jun 19 2020 // Tennessee would become the latest state to provide health care providers, schools and businesses broad protections against coronavirus lawsuits under a proposal gaining traction inside the GOP-dominant Statehouse. House...
China Finds Coronavirus Contamination in Seafood and Meat in Beijing Food Market
Jun 19 2020 // China has found the trading sections for meat and seafood in Beijing’s wholesale food market to be severely contaminated with the new coronavirus and suspects the area’s low temperature and high humidity may...
Hotels’ Coronavirus Recovery Offerings Include Robots, Purifiers, Nonstop Elevators
Jun 19 2020 // Set in the kelly-green hills of Ireland’s County Clare, Dromoland Castle is the type of getaway that never sits empty. Why would it, with a pampering spa tucked behind 16th century walls, a par-72 championship golf...
Texas’ Bexar County Orders Face Mask Use to Fight COVID-19; Fines Possible
Jun 18 2020 // Officials in the San Antonio area have ordered people to wear face masks in public when social distancing isn’t possible and warned that businesses could face fines of up to $1,000 for failing to comply with county...
Sustainable Recovery Plan Pitching Pandemic as Opportunity to Grow Greener
Jun 18 2020 // Economic growth can be boosted, jobs can be saved or even created and greenhouse gas emissions can be cut if we take advantage of the worldwide changes that have occurred as we hunkered down in response to the COVID-19...
Markel International Exits Personal Accident, Contingency Insurance on COVID-19 Impact
Jun 18 2020 // Markel International, the London-based specialist insurer and division of Markel Corp., has announced its wholesale business will now focus solely on the entertainment book of business within its personal accident,...
U.S. Automakers Revving Up Production, Stressing Covid Safety at Work and Home
Jun 18 2020 // Automakers are speeding up U.S. assembly lines to meet recovering demand, increasingly confident coronavirus safety protocols are working to prevent outbreaks in their plants but wary of the challenges workers face...
Lloyd’s Insurers Get Ready to Re-Open in September After Coronavirus Lockdown
Jun 18 2020 // Clear screens on underwriting boxes, temperature-check thermal cameras and a click and collect take-away catering service are among changes Lloyd’s of London insurance workers will see when they return to the office...
