Special Coverage: COVID-19

6 InsurTechs helping gig economy workers during the pandemic

Posted: Mar 31, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on gig economy workers as well as small businesses has been devastating.

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Viewpoint: What the Government Can and Should Do in Response to COVID-19

Posted: Mar 31, 2020

The world-wide spread of COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) presents us all with rather interesting questions about the power and role of federal and state government. COVID-19 is the illness caused by a virus strain that began spreading in people in December …

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How Agents Are Adapting to COVID-19 by Philip Charles Pierre

Posted: Mar 31, 2020

Lockdowns, mandatory work from home, social distancing – the coronavirus pandemic has upended lives across the US. With no definitive end in sight and officials closing restaurants, bars and non-essential businesses in cities and towns across the country, most small businesses are feeling the econo...

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New Yorkers affected by COVID-19 may defer paying life insurance premiums for 90 days

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) adopted an emergency regulation March 30 requiring New York State regulated issuers of life insurance and annuity contracts, property and casualty insurers and premium finance agencies to provide relief to New York consumers and businesses ex...

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A Longer Coronavirus Crisis Creates Greater Underwriting Loss Uncertainty: Fitch

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

A Longer Coronavirus Crisis Creates Greater Underwriting Loss Uncertainty: Fitch North American property/casualty insurers will likely face increasing coronavirus-related financial challenges as the pandemic crisis drags on, Fitch Ratings said in a new report. "Claims experience ...

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6 Tips for Remote Work During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

As agencies move to virtual operations to address risks posed by the coronavirus, they need to both engage employees and manage increased cyber vulnerabilities. Here are six tips to protect and motivate remote workers.

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Insurance events & conferences: Spring 2020

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

Here are the P&C events to keep an eye on May-June, as well as the events canceled or postponed in light of the coronavirus.

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The availability of insurance coverage for immediate coronavirus losses

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

There can be no debate that the presence of COVID-19 can make a business uninhabitable, unusable or unsafe.

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COVID-19: Business overhead expense insurance considerations

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

From a tax and insurance perspective, BOE insurance is one area business owners need to consider during a crisis.

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Coronavirus hits weddings, spurs fights over insurance policies

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

Weddings are now hard to find in the age of the coronavirus.

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COVID-19: A Property/Casualty Perspective

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

Considering the fact that property/casualty actuaries have never experienced a pandemic like covid-19, the paper considers the impact from several perspectives. The paper addresses, among others, the following questions: To what extent, if any, was P/C risk underpriced? Given the dramatic cessation...

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N.Y. introduces bill on pandemic-related business interruption claims

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

New York lawmakers have joined Ohio, Massachusetts and New Jersey in introducing a bill that would force insurers to retroactively cover business interruption claims due to COVID-19.

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From Free Coverage to Masks, P/C Insurers Try to Alleviate Coronavirus Pressures

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

From Free Coverage to Masks, P/C Insurers Try to Alleviate Coronavirus Pressures While the property/casualty insurance industry is fighting attempts to force it to pay for the huge business income losses that it says most policies were never intended to cover, some individual ...

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Perspectives: Insurers prepared for COVID-19, low interest rates

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis sweeping the nation, which is battering the economy and pummeling interest rates, has led many to wonder about the ability of insurers to pay claims from individuals and businesses that will inevitably arise from the pandemic.

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Bermuda Captive Conference rescheduled

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

The Bermuda Captive Conference committee has rescheduled its annual conference from June to September due to the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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RiskGenius Releases COVID Coverage Checklist to Help Commercial Insurers Evaluate Coronavirus Exposure

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

Overland Park, KS – March 26, 2020 – RiskGenius, an Insurtech company using artificial intelligence (AI) to enable property and casualty (P&C) carriers to analyze policy language across an entire...

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Tenant law firm aims to block lease

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

A small New York law firm that specializes in tenant law and is unable to make its $23,000 monthly rent due to the city’s coronavirus shutdown is beating the landlord to the punch.

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Oklahoma Lawmakers Call for First Responder Workers’ Comp Coverage for COVID-19

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

A group of Republican lawmakers from the Oklahoma House of Representatives are asking the Oklahoma Municipal League (OML), Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group (OMAG), CompSource Oklahoma and self-funded municipalities to cover and provide workers’ compensation benefits to any first responder testing...

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North Carolina Stay-At-Home Order Takes Effect

Posted: Mar 30, 2020

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced Friday that a statewide stay-at-home order will start Monday, saying more movement restrictions are needed to blunt the new coronavirus and prevent hospitals from being overrun by cases. Cooper said the order will take …

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