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As states rapidly enact COVID-19 workers’ compensation presumptions some businesses are considering legal challenges to these new laws, others have already started and are winning.
The bill also provides that an essential employee's absence from work due to the virus cannot be considered "on-duty time."
Challenge to COVID-19 workers' compensation presumption results in repeal of rule.
Chartwell Law partner, Andrew Klaber, has assembled a high-level summary of issues that may exist or arise due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Effective April 23, 2020, the commission will allow the parties to request a video remote hearing.
New efforts are being taken by some to circumvent the exclusivity provisions of many states’ workers’ compensation laws.
Senate Bill 1114, the “COVID-19 Insurance Relief Act,” was introduced to the Banking and Insurance Committee on April 15, 2020.
The PA Supreme Court has ruled COVID-19 qualifies as a natural disaster.
New proposed federal legislation, H.R. Bill 6494
Businesses’ concerns pivot from minimizing disruption to outright survival as they face the new reality of being unable to meet financial obligations.
Universities have begun voluntarily offering a refund, rebate, or credit relative to student payments made for the spring semester of 2020, is it enough?
