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California Orders Carriers to Refund Premiums to Drivers, Businesses Slammed by COVID-19
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Monday ordered insurance companies to return insurance premiums to consumers and businesses and provide financial relief during the COVID-19 ...
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 ...
Insurers Expect Coronavirus Claims Will Strike ‘Event Driven’ D&O Line
What may be the first U.S. securities lawsuits alleging misdeeds related to coronavirus were filed this month — one against a cruise line and another against a pharmaceutical company that claimed ...
Lloyd’s Confronts COVID-19 Claims in 14 Insurance Categories
Lloyd's insurers face COVID-19 related claims from approximately 14 categories of insurance, said Chief Executive Officer John Neal during a media call to discuss the market's 2019 results. Neal said ...
The World’s Weather Forecasts Are Weakened as Pandemic Idles Airplane Flights
The pandemic that has idled scores of commercial flights is having a little-noticed consequence for meteorologists, whose forecasts rely in part on data collected from planes. That means a crucial ...
AIR Worldwide Projects at Least 200,000 COVID-19 Cases Through Rest of March
AIR Worldwide, the Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm, projected the number of severe cases of COVID-19 could range between 200,000 and 900,000 globally, with deaths ranging from 10,000 to ...
Coronavirus Crisis Hits Insurers With Double Whammy
Having initially brushed off the potential impact from coronavirus-linked claims, global insurers are waking up to the prospect of a double whammy — a sharp rise in payouts at a time of big ...
The Impact of Coronavirus on Workers Comp: NCCI
The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has offered its perspective on the potential implications of coronavirus on the workers compensation industry. Compensability: Workers comp laws ...