It is common for businesses and individuals in the United States to resolve their disputes with lawsuits. Unfortunately, the maturing cannabis industry appears to be like any other when it comes to this kind of dispute resolution.

Most organizations are now requiring that their employees work from home with the ongoing novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, in the event of a breach or other incident, there may be limitations in your cyber liability insurance policy based upon the type of hardware being used.

Another week brings another round of COVID-19-related lawsuits. We are identifying some early trends and provide a synopsis of the more relevant lawsuits below.

A product liability claim presents some of the highest dollar loss potential for cannabis companies, according to Chris Boden, cannabis practice group team leader at the California-based wholesale insurance broker, Crouse and Associates Insurance Services. It’s one of the most severe exposures cannabis companies face, and yet not all businesses purchase product liability insurance coverage.

As the world continues to deal with the health and economic catastrophe created by the COVID-19 pandemic, a potential tsunami of related litigation has begun a slow but steady build. Because the pandemic is unprecedented, predicting the legal fallout left in its cruel wake is difficult.

Staying at home and closing nonessential businesses during the COVID-19 crisis has resulted in one major benefit for people who still need to drive their vehicles: fewer cars on the road. But the question is: Will the decrease in vehicle use ultimately result in lower auto losses for insurers?

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and conservative groups are lobbying lawmakers to give companies legal immunity if front-line workers believe they got sick on the job, or if families say their loved one died after catching COVID-19 at work.

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.

On March 18, 2020, a bipartisan group of U.S. House members asked the insurance industry to retroactively recognize financial losses relating to COVID-19 as covered claims under commercial property insurance policies that either explicitly or implicitly do not provide such coverage.

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.

More than 50 cars were involved in a massive pileup crash on the inbound Kennedy Expressway at North Avenue in just one of more than a dozen crashes reported Wednesday morning.

Global pharmaceutical and life sciences giant Bayer AG is currently negotiating thousands of US lawsuits claiming that the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup grass and weed killer causes a type of cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Complications from the coronavirus have been added to a list of issues for which school districts and parents of nicotine-addicted teens are seeking damages from Juul Labs Inc. and other companies in the vape industry.

While facing a sharp drop in new car wreck cases, Baton Rouge personal injury attorneys are beginning to field a smattering of inquiries about coronavirus-related litigation.

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.