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As SMBs Grapple With Virus, No Assurance From Insurance

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But perhaps they’re not, in an age where past epidemics (SARs among them) may have steered insurance firms to narrowly define parameters of what they would — and wouldn’t cover — in the event new health crises threatened the economic well being of smaller companies. Communicable diseases? Perhaps they’re covered.

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What Sticks? Scoping Retail Behaviors In The Time Of Contagion

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The partial shutdown of the U.S. Indeed, the SARS crisis is often credited with accelerating the adoption of e-commerce in China. retail economy is unprecedented. Terror attacks on 9/11 happened well before the internet was a factor, and are therefore not relevant as a comparison. So what sticks?