Gov. Brian Kemp has used his emergency powers to protect Georgia’s strained hospitals and medical workers from lawsuits related to the care they provide during the coronavirus pandemic.

In the rush to protect businesses and consumers from financial disaster, state governors around the nation are enacting a variety of rules and requirements to help provide relief to people struggling with the economic impact of COVID-19.

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has ordered insurers to return premiums from certain lines to businesses and consumers. This has raised pressure on those insurers to take larger steps to reduce customer financial burden caused by COVID-19.

Under normal circumstances, internist Jenni Levy makes house calls, checking on patients with chronic conditions and serving as what she calls "rolling urgent care."

One may not need to be able to read the cannabis leaves to divine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cannabis and insurance. Some good guesses from any insurance professional with their foot in the door of a dispensary, farm, lab, or distribution facility, might go along the lines of: Vaping will be tougher to insure, reinsurance will be harder to find, expect even more exclusions in policies, greater capacity.

Everyone seems to agree on two things when it comes to controlling the novel coronavirus: It is going to be monstrously expensive, and someone else should be paying the cost. Particularly if "someone else" is an insurer.

An industry expert is calling for legislators to pass a bill that would mandate that insurance companies pay for business losses incurred due to a pandemic such as the current COVID-19 outbreak.

The list of states in which marijuana is legal, either for medical or recreational purposes, is expected to continue to grow in 2020. Legislative efforts are expected to continue in New York and New Jersey, despite falling short the previous year, and in other states there are ballot-initiative campaigns aimed at legalizing recreational marijuana.

Insurance companies are facing political pressure to pay what could be a crippling sum of coronavirus-related claims — even though many of them say their policies don’t cover pandemics.

The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the globe and here at home may help spur more permanent changes to insurance regulations regarding online transactions.

Small-business owners banking on their so-called business disruption insurance to bail them out of the mounting losses being inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic may be in for a rude shock. That’s because a little-known condition of coverage put in place in 2006, a few years after the SARS outbreak, excludes coverage for any "loss due to virus or bacteria."

The wheels of justice are slowing down around the world as court systems based on open, public hearings deal with an outbreak that dictates the opposite.

Ever since states started legalizing marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes, there has been a debate over drug testing in the workplace. A worker who is using the drug medicinally may fail a drug test and lose their job.

State laws that require homebuyers to be told about a property’s flood risk can help mitigate some effects of climate change by reducing the value of flood-prone properties and discouraging development in floodplains, a new study finds.

Congress created crop insurance in 1938 to help protect farmers and U.S. food production from the sort of natural and financial calamities that crushed farmers during the Great Depression.