"COVIDigation Nation: Why So Many Cases? Are More Coming?"

[Editor's note: This article is the first of a series from RiskGenius Co-Founder and CEO Chris Cheatham about COVID-19 insurance litigation. Here, he looks at data to investigate the correlation between infection rates and lawsuit counts by state and in aggregate across the nation. Part 1 of a series: COVIDigation Nation. This article first appeared in Carrier Management.]

Let’s get a few things out of the way. First, I am not a data scientist or an actuary. I am an attorney interested in data. More specifically, I am interested in using data from disparate sources to understand how the …