Special Coverage: COVID-19

Texas Cities and Counties Prepare for Budget Shortfalls

Posted: Sep 18, 2025

Last year, Fort Worth gained a new distinction as Texas’ fourth city with more than 1 million people. While other major Texas cities grew at a slower clip or struggled to regain residents it lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fort …

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Appeals Court Stems Oakes Farms’ Free Speech Claim Over Lost School Contract

Posted: Sep 18, 2025

The owner of Florida-based Oakes Farms, known for his political views and conspiracy theories, has no legitimate legal claim against a Florida school district that terminated the farm’s food-supply contract over COVID-19 concerns, a federal appeals court said Wednesday. “To …

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Peloton Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Post-Pandemic Outlook

Posted: Aug 28, 2025

Peloton Interactive must face a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by masking excess inventory of its home exercise equipment as the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic passed, a divided federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Reversing a lower court ruling, …

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NC Supreme Court: Bar Owners Can Sue State for COVID-19 Shutdown Losses

Posted: Aug 26, 2025

Ruling potentially opens new avenue for business recovery after pandemic restrictions, potentially significant for insurer denial of most business interruption claims. The post NC Supreme Court: Bar Owners Can Sue State for COVID-19 Shutdown Losses appeared first on Risk & Insurance.

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Public Transit Liability Costs Surge 9% Annually as Industry Grapples With Post-Pandemic Recovery

Posted: Aug 26, 2025

Rising claim frequency and severity compound challenges for transit authorities still rebuilding ridership to pre-COVID levels, Aon report shows. The post Public Transit Liability Costs Surge 9% Annually as Industry Grapples With Post-Pandemic Recovery appeared first on Risk & Insurance.

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North Carolina High Court Rules Bars’ COVID-19 Lawsuits Can Continue

Posted: Aug 25, 2025

North Carolina High Court Rules Bars’ COVID-19 Lawsuits Can Continue The North Carolina Supreme Court issued favorable rulings Friday for bars and their operators in litigation seeking monetary compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions first issued by ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court Says Bars’ COVID Lawsuits Against State Can Continue

Posted: Aug 25, 2025

The North Carolina Supreme Court issued favorable rulings Friday for bars and their operators in litigation seeking monetary compensation from the state for COVID-19 restrictions first issued by then-Gov. Roy Cooper that shuttered their doors and, in their view, treated …

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Qantas Airways Fined $59M for Illegal Pandemic Layoffs

Posted: Aug 19, 2025

A judge on Monday fined Qantas Airways 90 million Australian dollars ($59 million) for illegally firing more than 1,800 ground staff at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The penalty is in addition to the A$120 million ($78 million) in …

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Insurance Ecosystems: Navigating an Unfamiliar World

Posted: Aug 14, 2025

Insurance Ecosystems: Navigating an Unfamiliar World Ecosystems ITL Editorial Team Thu, 08/14/2025 - 16:06 Traditional auto insurance models crumble as ecosystem partners must collaborate to navigate a rapidly changing market....

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Midwest Healthcare Company to Pay $1M in COVID Vaccine Mandate Case

Posted: Aug 14, 2025

Mercyhealth, a health care system operating hospitals and clinics in Illinois and Wisconsin, agreed to pay more than $1 million in monetary relief to a class of employees and has offered to reinstate employees that it terminated for refusing to …

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CDC Shooter Believed COVID Vaccine Made Him Suicidal, Father Tells Police

Posted: Aug 12, 2025

A Georgia man who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, shooting dozens of rounds into the sprawling complex and killing a police officer, had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, …

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Illinois Hospital Sued for Religious and Disability Discrimination

Posted: Aug 07, 2025

Silver Cross Hospital, based in New Lenox, Illinois, violated federal law when it failed to provide a reasonable accommodation to employees who requested to be exempt from receiving the COVID-19 vaccine because of religious and disability reasons, the U.S. Equal …

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Mayo Clinic Sued for Allegedly Forcing Security Guard to Get Vaccination

Posted: Aug 05, 2025

The Mayo Clinic violated federal law when it refused to grant a security guard’s request for a reasonable religious accommodation to its mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, and instead threatened to fire the employee, effectively forcing him to receive the vaccine …

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Pennsylvania Court Affirms Workers’ Comp Eligibility for Nurse Terminated Over Vaccine Refusal

Posted: Aug 04, 2025

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that a nurse fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination is still entitled to workers' compensation benefits for a prior injury, clarifying the intersection of workplace vaccine mandates and post-injury terminations for insurers and employers. The post Penns...

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Extreme Weather Could Cause 5% Drop in Euro Zone GDP, Bank Watchdogs Find

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

Extreme weather events such as heatwaves, flooding and wildfires could wipe as much off euro zone GDP in the next five years as the global financial crisis or the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior European Central Bank official said on Wednesday. …

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When a Disabled Employee Who Undermines Process of Accommodation Is Fired

Posted: Jul 10, 2025

A hospital lab employee who was fired for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 has lost her claim that she suffered discrimination because her employer failed to accommodate her disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The Fourth Circuit …

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P&C Carriers Can Win Against Insurance Fraud

Posted: Jul 03, 2025

P&C Carriers Can Win Against Insurance Fraud Claims ITL Editorial Team Thu, 07/03/2025 - 12:36 By deploying AI-powered multimodal technologies to sniff out fraudulent behaviors, insurers can help vanquish a multibillion-dollar drain on cons...

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Texas Braces for Budget Constraints as Federal Funding Dries Up

Posted: Jul 02, 2025

The era of massive state budget surpluses in Texas could be coming to an end. As the last of the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency funds are spent and sales tax revenues return to historic averages after a large spike, budget …

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