Louisiana Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Rare Policyholder Victory in COVID Claim
The Louisiana Supreme Court has agreed to review an appellate court decision that found the COVID virus caused a direct physical loss that was covered by ...
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BIG La. Case Against Lloyd’s For COVID BI Cover Rejected; Travelers Ohio Win
A New Orleans judge denied a motion for declaratory judgment that insurance coverage is owed to a restaurant for business income that was lost when it was required to close its dining room because of ...
Repair Your Damaged Reputations, AM Best Tells UK Insurers
While most of the COVID-related problems that plagued U.K. commercial property insurers will abate after the March anniversary of lockdowns, battles with reinsurers and damaged reputations are ...
What the Pandemic Can Teach Us
While the pandemic has provided an entirely unwelcome education, if we choose to, we will profit from its lessons. After all, no crisis should be wasted. The first of many lessons can be attributed ...
How Parametric Triggers Can Allow Insurers to Cover Pandemic Business Interruptions
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe levels of disruption to economies around the world and has affected businesses of all sizes—and the insurance industry has been caught in the middle of the ...
Chubb Unveils Public-Private Program for Pandemic Biz Interruption
Chubb unveiled a proposal for the insurance industry and federal government to partner on covering future pandemic-related business interruptions—and to get money to small businesses ...
Pandemic Losses Will Exceed S&P Estimates: Chief Risk Officers Say
Analysts for Standard & Poor's Global Ratings shared a view that U.S. underwriting losses from COVID-19 would fall in the $15-$30 billion range. Risk officers speaking at a rating agency ...
101 and Climbing: No. of Federal COVID Biz Interruption Lawsuits Expected to Rise
As of last Wednesday, a federal court had received notice that 101 lawsuits have been filed as of seeking coverage from insurers for business interruption losses caused by COVID-19, and plaintiffs ...
PRIA For ‘Communicable’—Not ‘Communicative’ Disease Risk
A proposal making rounds in the U.S. House of Representatives to "establish a Pandemic Risk Reinsurance Program" would involve "shared public and private compensation for business interruption losses ...