Trump acknowledges reports that he played down the threat of the virus, calling himself a ‘cheerleader.’ The New York Times — Maggie Haberman and Michael Cooper President Trump gave the journalist Bob Woodward extensive access in the hope that the eventual book would be “positive” in his eyes.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times President Trump acknowledged to the journalistnew_excerpt_more
COVID-19 Business Insurance Headlines
How Trump Sowed Covid Supply Chaos. ‘Try Getting It Yourselves.’
A landmark White House move left states to secure medical equipment themselves, causing problems that still haven’t abated The Wall Street Journal By Michael C. Bender and Rebecca Ballhaus Sergio Melgar, the chief financial officer for the largest health-care system in central Massachusetts, was about to run out of medical-grade N95 masks. A Chinese company poised to replenishnew_excerpt_more
China’s CDC, Built to Stop Pandemics Like Covid, Stumbled When It Mattered Most
Local leaders in Wuhan, consumed with domestic politics, did an end run around the Western-educated virologist whose agency was supposed to contain new contagious diseases By Jeremy Page and Lingling Wei Aug. 17, 2020 10:38 am ET BEIJING—Before going to bed, George Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, typically completes his 10,000new_excerpt_more
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decision Can Assist Policyholders In Their Insurance Coverage Claims For COVID-19 Losses
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued an Opinion that, although unrelated to insurance, provides helpful language to which policyholders and their counsel likely will cite in support of arguments for insurance covering business interruption losses related to the pandemic. In Friends of DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor, et al. (Case No. 68 MM 2020), Pennsylvanianew_excerpt_more
Business Interruption Insurance Coverage Act of 2020: Yet Another Reason to Promptly Notify Insurers of COVID-19 Losses
By James S. Hultz | Lexology Business interruption coverage stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic is a matter of intense debate. The number of policyholder lawsuits continues to rise sharply and an increasing number of state legislatures are considering laws to specifically address such coverage. Now, additional proposed legislation at the federal level could completely andnew_excerpt_more