Opening Statement of R.J. Lehmann Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fellow International Center for Law & Economics “Roundtable on Pandemic Risk” Hosted by Ranking Member French Smith and Members of U.S. House…

Background: Thousands of U.S. businesses have filed insurance claims for business interruption since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly where civil authorities have ordered businesses to shutter. The overwhelming…

"It is profoundly more important that Congress do its job to get assistance to the businesses, workers and communities who need that help right now that it is to pretend to have the answers in 2020 to a crisis of unknown and unknowable dimensions that may befall us in 2025 or 2050 or 2100."