Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Court Dismisses 32 COVID-19 Business Insurance Cases Against Erie Insurance
Oct 20 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed 32 lawsuits over COVID-19 business interruption insurance claims against Erie Insurance, concluding the claimants failed to “plausibly plead” that they are entitled to coverage...
Court Dismisses 32 COVID-19 Business Insurance Cases Against Erie Insurance
Oct 19 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed 32 lawsuits over COVID-19 business interruption insurance claims against Erie Insurance, concluding the claimants failed to “plausibly plead” that they are entitled to coverage...
Federal Judge Dismisses Multiple Pennsylvania COVID-19 Claims
Oct 18 2022 // A Western Pennsylvania federal district judge has dismissed eight cases seeking payment for COVID-19 business interruption coverage from several insurers including Cincinnati Insurance, Travelers Insurance and Hartford....
Insurers Win Key Parts of Stonegate COVID-19 Business Interruption Case: MS Amlin
Oct 17 2022 // Insurers have won key parts of a complex legal battle with British pubs group Stonegate, MS Amlin said after Monday’s judgment on the 1 billion pound ($1.13 billion) lawsuit against three top insurers over losses...
Thousands of New Independent Agencies Opened During the Pandemic: Study
Oct 13 2022 // The number of independent insurance agencies has increased and business conditions for agencies remain favorable, according to the 2022 Agency Universe Study. While the majority of agencies experienced increased revenue,...
Report: More than Half of California COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims in Healthcare
Oct 13 2022 // More than a half of all reported COVID-19 indemnity claims in California continue to arise from workers in the healthcare sector, according to a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. The...
Judge Nixes Mars COVID-19 Insurance Bid But Leaves $1M Door Ajar
Oct 11 2022 // The U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia has dismissed a complaint by petcare and food company Mars Inc. seeking insurance coverage for COVID-19-related business interruption claims. Insurer FM Global sought and won...
Revival Sought for Outspoken Louisiana Pastor’s Lawsuit Over COVID Restrictions
Oct 6 2022 // An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama has asked a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor’s damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions. A federal...
Judge Dismisses Suit By Veterans’ Home Employees Over COVID Work Conditions
Oct 6 2022 // A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by employees of the Massachusetts veterans’ home at the center of a devastating COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 who said their constitutional rights were violated because they...
California Tells Auto Insurers to Disclose Pandemic Profits
Oct 4 2022 // California’s insurance commissioner ordered nearly 50 auto insurers to provide detailed information about their claim costs during the pandemic, his latest attempt to compensate consumers he says were overcharged as...
Vermont Supreme Court Revives COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Claim
Sep 26 2022 // The Vermont Supreme Court has kept alive a COVID-19 business interruption loss claim by major shipbuilder against a group of reinsurers. The state’s high court ruled that the case brought by Huntington Ingalls...
Barbados Issues 1st Pandemic-Protected Bond, Which Also Covers Natural Disasters
Sep 22 2022 // Barbados has issued the world’s first government bond with a clause allowing payments to be suspended in the event of another global pandemic, a move expected to attract interest from dozens of other countries...
New York City Lifts COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses
Sep 21 2022 // New York City Mayor Eric Adams is encouraging private businesses to put in place their own vaccine policies after making the private sector vaccine mandate optional. The city has also now made vaccines optional for...
Pandemic, Labor Shortage Keep Hurricane Victims in Limbo
Sep 15 2022 // Nearly six years after flood damage from Hurricane Matthew displaced Thad Artis from his home in Goldsboro, North Carolina, he has still not been placed in permanent housing. Living alone in a motel for the last two years,...
Jury Awards $48.5M to Baylor Medical College for COVID Business-Interruption Claim
Sep 7 2022 // A Texas jury awarded the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston $48,529,961 for damages caused by COVID-19 in what appears to be the first jury verdict in a lawsuit that sought insurance coverage for lost business income...
COVID Impacts Linger in Courtrooms, Often a Disadvantage for Defendants
Sep 5 2022 // Courts have reopened and trials have resumed, but the impacts of COVID-19 continue to linger in the judicial system, a panel of claims litigation experts said during the Combined Claims Conference last month. For one...
Regulatory Roundup: DHS Adjuster Licensing, Pandemic Regulatory Catchup, Idaho Joins SBS
Aug 29 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. State by state variations of laws, compliance protocols, industry transparency, and general regulatory cultures can lend one the impression that keeping up with...
Moderna Sues Pfizer/BioNTech for Patent Infringement Over COVID Vaccine
Aug 26 2022 // Moderna is suing Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first COVID-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years...
US Pandemic-Era Inflation Mostly Driven by Demand Surge, NY Fed Study Finds
Aug 24 2022 // The majority of US pandemic-era inflation came from a surge in demand, but supply-chain constraints stoked it further, Federal Reserve Bank of New York research shows. About 60% of the inflation seen from 2019 to 2021 was...
COVID Impacts Linger in Courtrooms, Often a Disadvantage for Defendants
Aug 23 2022 // Courts have reopened and trials have resumed, but the impacts of COVID-19 continue to linger in the judicial system, a panel of claims litigation experts said during the Combined Claims Conference on Thursday. For one...
