Insurance Coverage For Swine Flu Claims in the US

As the world braces for a Swine Flu pandemic, the first concern of every business is the safety of their workers – and customers, if they’re in the hospitality industry or another business that draws people into physical proximity to one another. Here, Diana Shafter Gliedman, Marshall Gilinsky and Rhonda D. Orin, attorneys in the New York and Washington D.C offices of law firm, Anderson Kill & Olick, consider key issues likely to arise from claims under standard business insurance policies in the US in the event of a Swine Flu outbreak. All three attorneys specialise in insurance recovery litigation on behalf of policyholders, for which the firm is nationally known in the US

Step One is to access and implement the Business Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist jointly produced by the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services, posted at http://www.pandemicflu.gov.