Tag: COVID-19

July 24, 2023

Life insurance sales conversion rates could become 3-5x higher, according to a new study by BCG, Income Insurance and ZA Tech which explores how to successfully turn digital leads into high value insurance sales. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, many industries […]

April 5, 2023

The expanded Medicaid and CHIP coverage offered during the COVID-19 public health emergency ended March 31, 2023, and employees and dependents who were participating in the expanded government-provided health insurance were disenrolled from those coverages Friday. Employers will need to […]

February 24, 2023

Global corporation ITT has again been denied coverage under its “all-risk” policy for business costs and losses it sustained due to Covid-19. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a ruling by the federal district court for Connecticut that […]

February 23, 2023

A New York appeals court last week upheld the dismissal of Madison Square Garden’s Covid-19 business interruption claim against Factory Mutual Insurance Co. The court agreed with a New York County court’s dismissal in January, 2002 after it found that […]

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 […]