The insurance-industry reputation management process should go beyond marketing and advertising to include communications and public-relations expertise. (Shutterstock.com)  The insurance-industry reputation management process should go beyond marketing and advertising to include communications and public-relations expertise. (Shutterstock.com)

Almost as soon as the pandemic forced portions of the economy to close last March, businesses began filing lawsuits to compel insurance companies to pay business-interruption claims they thought were covered. Insurers have denied these claims, arguing the policies in question had specific pandemic exclusions or, more broadly, were intended only to help businesses recover from fire and other events that cause property damage.

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