Special Coverage: COVID-19
Posted: May 18, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is upending the way employers conduct regular business operations. Most industries now face a wide variety of challenges, including dislocation of their workforce, lost revenues, changing priorities and employee safety, to name a few. Three industry experts joined us for ou...
Posted: May 18, 2020
Restaurants serving takeout and delivery orders in Louisiana during the coronavirus outbreak and businesses providing protective gear should be largely shielded from lawsuits for injuries, the state Senate decided on May 14. Senators overwhelmingly supported the pair of bills from …
Posted: May 18, 2020
FedEx has confirmed that workers from its facility in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe have tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson from FedEx Ground said in a statement that it was working cooperatively with county health officials and offering …
Posted: May 18, 2020
In the days before his death, an Iowa meatpacking worker twice warned that the coronavirus was spreading through his plant because of its crowded spaces and lack of personal protective equipment, his nephew said. Husen Jagir, 56, died May 1, …
Posted: May 18, 2020
Firm sues brokerage, employee, and carrier over losses
Posted: May 18, 2020
Businesses are afraid workers who contract the virus will sue
Posted: May 18, 2020
The most important data for the U.S. economy right now are the “medical metrics” around the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Sunday night in broadcast remarks where he outlined the likely need for three to six more …
Posted: May 18, 2020
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers last week unveiled a plan to compensate essential workers who fall sick or die from COVID-19. The lawmakers are modeling their Pandemic Heroes Compensation Act after the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Reps. Carolyn …
Posted: May 18, 2020
Key Takeaways The Pennsylvania Supreme Court declined to exercise jurisdiction over all COVID-19 insurance coverage litigation. The decision relates to an application for extraordinary relief from a Pittsburgh-based restaurant seeking coverage for business income losses allegedly triggered by the CO...
Posted: May 17, 2020
Buckle, a technology-driven financial services company, has been granted temporary approval to add insurance coverage to its rideshare driver members’ policies for the delivery of food, household supplies, and other packaged goods. Due to the COVID-19 crisis that has forced …
Posted: May 17, 2020
Mental health disorders cover a wide range of conditions — including mood, thinking and behavior disorders — that affect millions of people in the United States. In any given year, about one in five adults will have been diagnosed with a mental disorder, with the most common disorders being anxiety...
Posted: May 17, 2020
During the COVID-19 crisis, communities must consider the real possibility of facing multiple and concurrent disasters.
Posted: May 17, 2020
The cannabis industry is being affected by COVID-19 much like other business sectors, but the complexities of this budding industry make its eventual recovery from the pandemic and ensuing economic fallout even harder to predict. Yet that didn’t stop us …
Posted: May 17, 2020
Standard & Poor’s said it does not expect state legislators to succeed in their efforts to retroactively expand business interruption insurance coverage for COVID-19-related losses. The reason: An expectations of fierce insurance industry-fueled legal challenges. “We are taking the initial …
Posted: May 17, 2020
Three industry experts discussed access to care and the return to work during the COVID-19 crisis.
Posted: May 17, 2020
The property & casualty industry has benefited by stepping up innovation during the COVID-19 crisis.
Posted: May 17, 2020
Health insurance carriers have made efforts to support subscribers and dependents through the pandemic crisis by waiving cost sharing such as co-pays, coinsurance and deductibles for providers’ office visits, lab fees and treatments related to COVID-19. Advertisement According to The Wall Street...
Posted: May 15, 2020
COVID-19-linked losses wipe out company's improved underwriting gains
Posted: May 15, 2020
A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers on Thursday unveiled a plan to compensate essential workers who fall sick of die from COVID-19, modeling the Pandemic Heroes Compensation Act after the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-NY, …
Posted: May 15, 2020
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana lawmakers won’t try to force business interruption insurance policies to cover the widespread closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Sen. Rick Ward, a Port Allen Republican, scrapped the proposal Wednesday amid concerns it could crater …
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