Swiss Re, Zurich Insurance in Talks with Swiss Regulator About Coronavirus Impact March 20, 2020 By Patrick Winters Switzerland’s top insurance companies are in talks with the financial regulator about the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on their...
Pressure Builds on Insurers to Be Part of Coronavirus Business Solution March 20, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson While legislators in Washington and states try to fashion financial relief for businesses interrupted by the public health actions related...
M5.7 Earthquake in Utah Confirmed March 20, 2020 By Brady McCombs and Lindsay Whitehurst With much of normal life at a screeching halt to combat the coronavirus, millions of people in Utah are hunkered...
Coronavirus Strikes Post-Brexit Trade Talks with Top Negotiators in Isolation March 20, 2020 By Tim Ross and Ian Wishart The coronavirus has struck at the heart of the post-Brexit trade talks between Britain and the European Union, with both...
Insurers Reject House Members’ Request to Cover Uninsured COVID Business Losses March 20, 2020 A bipartisan group of U.S. House members has asked insurers to retroactively recognize financial losses relating to COVID-19 under commercial...
NY Regs Ask Insurers for Details of Business Interruption Policies in Wake of COVID-19 March 20, 2020 By Elizabeth Blosfield The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has instructed insurers to submit details of business interruption policies that...
Southeast Insurance Regulators Issue Industry Guidance for Coronavirus Outbreak March 20, 2020 By Amy O'Connor Insurance departments across the Southeast are notifying industry representatives of updated procedures and expectations in response to the coronavirus outbreak,...
Life Insurers Go Slow on New Policies to Limit Coronavirus Risk March 19, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn U.S. life insurers are trying to curb their own risks to coronavirus by imposing waiting periods for applicants who have...
California Places All Residents Under ‘Stay at Home’ Order March 19, 2020 By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman California’s governor on Thursday issued an unprecedented statewide “stay at home order” directing the state’s 40 million residents to hunker...
Restaurants’ Coronavirus Relief Request Includes Government-Backed Insurance March 19, 2020 The nation’s restaurants stand to lose at least $275 billion and shed as many as 7 million jobs over the...