Special Coverage: COVID-19
Posted: Jul 01, 2022
Policy committees in the California Senate passed a bill that would extend COVID-19 presumptions for two years.
Posted: Jul 01, 2022
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is extending its revised National Emphasis Program for COVID-19, set to expire July 7, until further notice and doubling its inspections goal, the Department of Labor announced Thursday.
Posted: Jul 01, 2022
The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons. The court’s action follows a decision in December …
Posted: Jun 30, 2022
Despite a brief period of respite during COVID, commercial auto carriers are not out of the woods yet
Posted: Jun 30, 2022
This content was recently published in the Blogs section of RMS’ website. It is republished here with permission. Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, inflationary trends have captured news headlines around the world. Starting with the pandemic, by …
Posted: Jun 29, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s National Emphasis Program for worker safety in the COVID-19 pandemic will be extended past its upcoming July expiration date, Doug Parker, OSHA’s assistant secretary of labor, told attendees Wednesday during a Q&A at the American Society of Safety...
Posted: Jun 29, 2022
Workplace safety leaders who scrambled with the unprecedented shutdowns, mandated protocols, staffing shortages and telecommuting arrangements resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic can now use what they learned to prepare for the next health emergency, according to panelists who spoke Monday at the A...
Posted: Jun 29, 2022
Charlotte, N.C. (June 29, 2022) – Stealth Partner Group, an Amwins company and premier stop-loss general agency, released its State of the Market report, providing up-to-date market intelligence on health care and employer stop-loss trends, effects of COVID-19 on the …
Posted: Jun 29, 2022
A ConAgra employee, who contracted COVID-19 on the job and transmitted the virus to his wife, is suing the company for her death. The post Compensation for Worker’s COVID Illness Barred by Exclusive Remedy Provision, Court Decides appeared first on Risk & Insurance.
Posted: Jun 28, 2022
A federal appeals court panel said Monday it would convene a full panel to reconsider President Joe Biden’s executive order requiring civilian federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and set aside the order pending that hearing.
Posted: Jun 27, 2022
The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation on Friday reported a significant drop in COVID-19 claims in March and April.
Posted: Jun 27, 2022
The medical profession in New Hampshire is accusing the insurance industry of using “junk science” in justifying its denials of Covid-related business insurance claims. In an amicus brief in a case between a hotel chain and eight insurers, the New …
Posted: Jun 24, 2022
A New Jersey appeals court overturned a lower court and ruled against an Atlantic City casino and in favor of units of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd., American International Group Inc. and Allianz SE in COVID-19-related business interruption coverage Thursday.
Posted: Jun 24, 2022
Despite the strong push for COVID-19 workers compensation presumptions in the early stages of the pandemic, fewer than half of the 18 states that enacted legislation or saw executive orders still have the provisions in place, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Council on Compen...
Posted: Jun 24, 2022
China’s manufacturing hub of Guangdong raised its flood warning to the highest level due to the worst rains in decades, spurring more evacuations and threatening further supply chain disruptions in an economy reeling from Covid-related lockdowns. Guangdong province raised its …
Posted: Jun 23, 2022
California’s top state court has agreed to decide whether employers can be held liable under state law when their workers contract COVID-19 on the job and spread it to their relatives.
Posted: Jun 23, 2022
Review the current state-level legislative picture of COVID presumptions across the U.S.
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