Tag: COVID-19

December 13, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Monday that COVID-19 cannot cause any direct physical damage or loss that is covered by a commercial property insurance policy, joining nine other state high courts that have rejected similar business-interruption claims. The Ohio court […]

October 18, 2022

A federal judge in western Pennsylvania has ruled that losses from the COVID-19 pandemic and related government shut-down orders do not trigger business interruption (BI) coverage under Erie Insurance’s (Erie) commercial “all risk” property policies. Reuters reported that Chief US […]

October 17, 2022

Two of Australia’s largest insurers have both slashed their reserve provisions for business interruption claims from the COVID-19 pandemic after last week’s test case ruling. As we reported last week, the second test case in the High Court of Australia […]

July 19, 2022

The recent ruling by a California court of appeal to reverse a lower court’s dismissal and reinstate a COVID-19 related business interruption (BI) lawsuit filed against a division of global insurer Allianz, has the potential to set a “worrying precedent”, […]

May 16, 2022

The decline in profits for four major European reinsurers is down to varying factors, says Fitch Ratings. The agency said that the Q! 2022 results for Munich re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re, and SCOR saw an average return on equity […]

April 28, 2022

To help those whose lives have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, State Farm is offering a $2 million grant to the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a nonprofit with which the insurer has a decades-long partnership. The grant will […]

March 11, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has now been with us for almost two years. In that time, it has brought hardships and lost profits to many sectors of the business community, from hotels to restaurants to brick-and-mortar stores. As a result, a […]

February 15, 2022

COVID-19 Business Interruption Coverage Litigation This is the third installment of our series of articles reviewing some of the key trends and developments currently impacting the U.S. insurance industry. The issuance of various governmental orders requiring businesses to temporarily modify […]

January 24, 2022

Bank of America (BoA) has said that reinsurers in Europe should post strong last-quarter numbers for 2021, saying that figures for that period may be higher than expected. The bank said it believes that a strong Q4 2021 will contrast […]

January 10, 2022

Analysts at Guy Carpenter have reported that the general aviation and aerospace markets remained “relatively unaffected” by COVID-19 at the January 1, 2022 renewal period. After two years of increases in these markets, the broker reported that reinsurers priced as […]

January 6, 2022

The National Hockey League (NHL), and 20 of its clubs, have filed a lawsuit against their insurance carriers for allegedly breaching contracts by refusing to cover more than $1 billion in COVID-19-related losses incurred over the past two seasons. The […]

December 30, 2021

News about two proposed but unrealized insurance acquisitions were the top national stories published by Insurance Journal in 2021, a year in which news on COVID-19 and ransomware also continued to dominate. Reports on the twists and turns of broker […]

November 19, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread around the world last year, businesses faced unprecedented certainty and disruption, leading to a wave of insurance coverage disputes. Roughly a year and a half later, we are beginning to get some clarity […]

September 30, 2021

In a recent report, S&P Global Ratings says the demand for cyber coverage has increased significantly since before COVID-19 and that a stronger partnership between insurers and reinsurers could help strengthen coverage, give greater balance sheet protection against frequent, high-severity […]

September 27, 2021

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has announced an initiative aimed at strengthening the protection of vulnerable communities from socio-economic, climate and health-related disasters. handshake-close-up-photoThe Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF), established in the Finance Sector Hub, is said to […]

July 19, 2021

The shutdown that followed the COVID-19 pandemic ironically forced many companies forward when it came to technology and innovation, and the shift appears to be a permanent – and positive – one, especially for women. “Companies are recognizing if people […]

July 15, 2021

A new report from global reinsurance company Swiss Re suggests that a strong economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will drive insurance market premiums much higher, lifting them to a record almost US $7 trillion by the end of 2021. […]

June 1, 2021

According to a new report from Bloomberg, the cumulative cost of COVID-19 claims for the largest life reinsurers hit $4.4 billion in the first quarter of the year as mortality rates spiked. The biggest costs for life reinsurers came from […]

May 25, 2021

According to a National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the US insurance industry reported a total of $7.5 trillion in total cash and invested assets at the end of last year, showing an increase of 7.7% compared to 2019. The […]

May 13, 2021

According to a new insurtech report from Capgemini and Efma, policyholders have become more cautious when taking out insurance, resulting in the need for insurers to empower their distribution network with newer technologies. As natural disasters and emerging risks have […]