Tyson Foods Says Employees Getting Shots After Vaccine Mandate August 11, 2021 About 5,400 Tyson Foods Inc. employees have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or received their first shots since the meat...
Amazon Loses Bid to Halt New York Warehouse COVID Safety Probe August 11, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed Amazon.com Inc’s lawsuit to block New York’s attorney general from investigating the online retailer’s...
Deadly Rise in Speeding That Began During Pandemic Still Hasn’t Stopped August 10, 2021 By David Sharp Motorists put the pedal to the metal during the pandemic and police are worried as roads get busy with the...
Biden Administration Examining How Far Employers Can Go in Mandating Vaccines August 9, 2021 By Trevor Hunnicutt The Biden administration is examining what authority businesses have to mandate vaccines, a top U.S. official told Reuters on Friday,...
Insurers Expect COVID-19 Liability Claims Against Employers as Employees Return August 6, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn, Noor Zainab Hussain and Kirstin Ridley Liability insurers on both sides of the Atlantic are scaling back the cover they offer companies ahead of an expected...
As Delta Variant Spreads, Officials and Firms Push Vaccines, Masks Over Lockdowns August 4, 2021 By Maria Caspani and Dan Whitcomb New York City will become the first major U.S. city to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination at restaurants, gyms and...
Ruling Against Dentist’s COVID Business Interruption Could Be Key Win for Insurers August 4, 2021 By Jim Sams A federal appellate court ruling that dismissed a dental practice’s COVID-19 business interruption claim might be the beginning of the...
CDC Describes Delta Variant as Highly Contagious – Report July 30, 2021 By Shubham Kalia, Aishwarya Nair and Josephine Mason The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described the Delta variant of the coronavirus as being as...
States Braced for a Wave of COVID Lawsuits. It Never Arrived. July 28, 2021 By Elaine S. Povich In a legislative flurry, 30 states instituted liability protections in late 2020 and early 2021 designed to protect businesses from...
Pressure on Workers to Get Vaccine Grows as Patience Runs Thin for U.S. Employers July 28, 2021 By Elise Young As a resurgence in Covid-19 cases prompts more U.S. employers to require vaccinations, workers who object face a common response:...