New Capital Entering Market Unlikely to Quickly Soften Rates: Vantage Risk CEO December 11, 2020 By L.S. Howard Greg Hendrick, the CEO and co-founder of the new reinsurance and insurance company Vantage Risk isn’t too concerned about the...
Cyber Attack on EU Drug Regulator Has Not Disrupted Work on COVID-19 Vaccines December 11, 2020 BRUSSELS – The head of the European Union drug regulator said on Thursday the agency’s work assessing COVID-19 vaccines had...
Uber Asks States to Prioritize Delivery, Rideshare Drivers for COVID Vaccine December 10, 2020 By Tina Bellon Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday sent letters to the governors of all U.S. states, asking for its ride-hail and food...
U.S. Drug Advisory Panel Meets Today on Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine December 10, 2020 By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is meeting on Thursday to weigh whether to...
Workers With Second Jobs May Be Factor in Nursing Home COVID Risk: Study December 10, 2020 Nurses and other long-term care workers in nursing homes who hold multiple jobs may be one of the factors contributing...
Why World Bank’s Controversial Pandemic Bonds Didn’t Function as Hoped December 10, 2020 By Tracy Alloway and Tasos Vossos In late January 2015, just after the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stood...
How to Address the Next Uninsurable Pandemic — A Black Swan Event December 9, 2020 By Lucca de Paoli, Katherine Chiglinsky and Benjamin Robertson There aren’t many contexts where $2 trillion seems like a paltry sum. Then a pandemic comes along. The economic fallout...
States Grapple With Determining Who’s Essential, Who’s Not for COVID Vaccine December 9, 2020 By Tina Bellon and Richa Naidu Companies and industry groups lobbying to get their U.S. workers to the front of the line for COVID vaccination are...
Expansion of Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19 in 6 States Created Narrow Benefit December 8, 2020 By Jim Sams While at least 17 states have passed laws or issued orders that expanded access to workers’ compensation benefits for employees...
Bankrupt Store Chain Sells $175M Unpaid COVID Insurance Claim to Pay Debt December 7, 2020 By Jeremy Hill There’s an unusual asset up for grabs in Century 21 Stores’ going-out-of-business sale: a stake in its long-shot legal fight...