Election Winner Won't Hurt Insurers' Profits, and Pandemic Hasn't Hurt Weekly Benefits

If insurers are worried about what the winner of Tuesday's presidential election might mean for profitability, perhaps they shouldn't be. And if worker advocates are concerned about the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on average weekly wages and benefits, they can relax. Those are two of the findings in recent reports that have examined the effects of the coronavirus and the related recession on the workers' compensation industry, eight months after the pandemic began. First, the political angle, while the votes are still being counted. In a presentation to the Insurance Cou...