The Summer Casualty Quarterly includes a Q&A with Academy Casualty Vice President Lisa Slotznick on the Casualty Practice Council’s comments to the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on a discussion draft of the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act, including the impact on business interruption insurance.

The Casualty Practice Council commented on H.R. 7011, a proposal to facilitate expansion of Business Interruption insurance to include future pandemic events.

The Workers’ Compensation Committee released an issue brief, Presumptive Benefits in Workers’ Compensation: Emerging Issues Before and After COVID-19, which covers what workers’ compensation presumption of benefits means, how laws vary by state, what occupations are covered by presumptions, what injuries or diseases are classified as presumptive, who is eligible, how claims can be rebuttable by the employers, what are the cost elements of workers’ compensation presumptions, and other cost considerations.