By Shalyn Smith McKitt | Balch & Bingham LLP Healthcare Workforce Issues We thought 2020 was unprecedented, but healthcare employers were faced with new challenges in employment law as the world adapted to COVID-19 in 2021. And 2022 won’t be any different...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC COVID-19 Business Mandates Lawmakers in Connecticut have responded to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with the approval of a number of legislative changes related to remote meetings and voting, while Rhode Island legislators passed a...
Jail and prison staff need a clear understanding of evolving law—including inmate health law and emerging COVID-19 policies. In a webinar hosted by the American Jail Association and sponsored by LexisNexis® , Professor Margo Schlanger, JD, shared important...
Reducing the risk of inmate litigation Jail and prison staff need a clear understanding of evolving law—including inmate civil rights, inmate health, and case law. In a 2021 webinar hosted by the American Jail Association and sponsored by LexisNexis®...
By Randi-Lynn Smallheer and Anna Haliotis The waves of commercial litigation triggered by the impact of COVID-19 continue to build and crash ashore. Corporate legal departments in every industry are seeing a pace and volume of lawsuits related to the pandemic...
By Elias Kahn American businesses continue to wrestle with what “return to work” really means for their workforce, whether it requires everyone who worked in an office to come back to the workplace, a shift to a remote work environment or some sort...
By Elias Kahn Millions of Americans are now headlong into the process of returning to their respective workplaces after nearly 18 months of pandemic-required lockdowns and business disruptions. One of the unpleasant truths to accompany this post-COVID return...
ACA Survives Third Supreme Court Challenge: For the third time since being enacted in 2010, the Affordable Care Act has survived a major challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court. By a wider margin than in the previous challenges in 2012 and 2015, with seven of the...
By: Elias Kahn , Esq., Sr. Product Manager Labor & Employment, Tax, and Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation There was no corporate legal department manual for how to navigate the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic was a true black swan event that...
Over the last year, law firms of all sizes, from the largest in the world to small and midsize firms, have pursued funding from multiple rounds of the Payment Protection Program (PPP) . For some, the PPP loans they received were insurance for rough patches that...
On January 29, 2021, the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, officially extended the federal government’s moratorium on residential evictions until March 31, 2021. The moratorium began with the...
We all know that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a historic increase in filings for unemployment benefits. But those are not the only employment-related claims that have risen during the pandemic. Workplace lawsuits are also on the rise. As a result of the unique...
During the past few economic downturns, one of the most common refrains has been the expected boom of corporate and individual bankruptcies. The downturn brought about by COVID-19 was no exception. If we were to use news headlines as our barometer, predictions...
Faced with continued economic uncertainty and the expiration of the federal Paycheck Protection Program for those fortunate to secure forgivable loans, many small businesses are still struggling to cover one of their largest fixed costs: rent. Business owners...
The short life of the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) has been all about speed. As the COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed the economy in March 2020, the federal government hurriedly created the PPP loan program to rescue small businesses...