Special Coverage: COVID-19

Truckers Seek Detours Around Rising Costs and Litigation; Tort Reform, Safety Tech, Claims Control Seen as Best Routes

Posted: Nov 02, 2025

By Andrea Wells The COVID-era boom in trucking is definitely over. The trucking sector is experiencing one of its most challenging times, with trucking operators’ profitability dropping across all sectors, total costs continuing to rise, and freight tonnage and rates …

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Inflation, Supply Chains, Tariffs: Trends Impacting Business Insurance and Claims

Posted: Oct 22, 2025

Inflation, Supply Chains, Tariffs: Trends Impacting Business Insurance and Claims Inflation has been a persistent issue in the United States, though it has moderated since its peak during the COVID-19 pandemic, while supply chain disruptions for equipment and other goods continue ...

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Inflation, Supply Chains, Tariffs: Trends Impacting Business Insurance and Claims

Posted: Oct 20, 2025

Inflation has been a persistent issue in the United States, though it has moderated since its peak during the COVID-19 pandemic, while supply chain disruptions for equipment and other goods continue to add to insurance claim costs—and the financial impacts …

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Car Makers Take a Dangerous Turn

Posted: Oct 06, 2025

Car Makers Take a Dangerous Turn PaulCarroll Mon, 10/06/2025 - 23:21 At a time when highway deaths in the U.S. are finally in a sustained decline again, after a surge related to COVID recklessness and distracted driving, car makers seem to be set on a dangerous path. Wanting to show...

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FARM AND AG: THE SEQUEL

Posted: Oct 01, 2025

Conference sessions discuss workers compensation/employers liability and agritainment By Christopher W. Cook It’s that time of year again. Harvest time. Disclaimer: I know we’re all in a hurry, but please give farmers room on the road. As I mentioned in my first installment, I got hooked on a Farm S...

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Mass. High Court Revives Fired Employee’s Religious Claim Over Vaccine Refusal

Posted: Sep 30, 2025

A surgical technician who was fired in 2021 after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons can pursue her claim against her former employer UMass Memorial Health Care, the Massachusetts Supreme Court (SJC) has ruled. The state’s highest …

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Tariffs Cloud Economic Outlook for Insurance

Posted: Sep 26, 2025

Tariffs Cloud Economic Outlook for Insurance Regulation & Public Policy sradomski Fri, 09/26/2025 - 10:38 Still, Michel Léonard, chief economist for the Triple-I, says the economy and thus the insurance industry will end the year in a bette...

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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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Obamacare Subsidy Cliff Looms

Posted: Sep 12, 2025

Obamacare Subsidy Cliff Looms Life & Health ITL Editorial Team Fri, 09/12/2025 - 15:21 Millions face 75% ACA premium increases when enhanced subsidies expire, yet only 7% are aware of the looming crisis. September 22, 202...

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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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