Paul White (Partner-Los Angeles) was quoted in the February 19, 2020, edition of Insurance Business America in an article titled, “What Mark Will the Novel Coronavirus Leave on the Global Economy?” According to Paul, “when something like the coronavirus emerges, you see world organizations and governments go into action immediately because … the impact could affect the whole world in a matter of days.” The World Health Organization reports that around 47,000 cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed. By comparison, the SARS epidemic affected 26 countries and resulted in more than 8,000 cases in 2003, though neither of these comes close to the Spanish flu of 1918. “In the world in which we live,” says Paul, “widespread commercial air travel and extensive international shipping of food creates transmission opportunities and provides the means for the rapid spread of contamination and infection relative to a flu pandemic.” 

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