Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
Mar 22 | Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
The Texas Supreme Court has accepted certified questions from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to clarify Texas’ eight-corners rule for determining the existence of a duty to defend.
Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
Mar 22 | Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
On March 19, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 95, thereby expanding California’s COVID supplemental paid sick leave provisions (“COVID leave”).
California’s prior supplemental paid sick leave requirements (which flowed initially from the governor’s executive action, and then from AB 1867) expired on Dec. 31, 2020. SB 95, which extends and expands those prior protections, applies retroactively to Jan. 1, 2021. The leave requirements will run through Sept. 30, 2021, with the exception that if an employee is on COVID leave at the time the law expires, the employee will be entitled to the full amount of leave required, even if the leave extends beyond the expiration of the law. Below are the key elements of the new law that employers should be aware of.
Article, Insurance Coverage
Mar 16 | Article, Insurance Coverage
One year ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic ground the world to a halt, our firm’s virtual offices were inundated with calls from policyholders, asking if their current and projected losses due to the pandemic would be covered by insurance.
Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
Mar 15 | Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
The Nevada Supreme Court held that insurers may seek reimbursement of defense costs if a court determines that it owed no duty to defend and the insurer reserved reimbursement rights.
Legal Alert, Business Litigation
Mar 15 | Legal Alert, Business Litigation
A recent case in the Northern District of California presents a reminder that hospital systems need to consider antitrust issues when negotiating multi-hospital contracts with health plans. Unfortunately, even when hospitals reach mutually satisfactory agreements with health plans, the contracts are still subject to attack by third parties that view the contracts as anticompetitive.
Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
Mar 11 | Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“Rescue Plan”) into law—a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. Here are five things every employer should know about the bill.
Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
Mar 11 | Legal Alert, Insurance Coverage
The California Court of Appeal issued an important decision that may significantly impact how settlement opportunities are evaluated in catastrophic liability claims.
Case Summary, Labor and Employment Law
Mar 09 | Case Summary, Labor and Employment Law
Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
Feb 25 | Legal Alert, Labor and Employment Law
The California Supreme Court held that employers cannot use the practice of rounding time punches in the meal period context, and that unrounded time records that show noncompliant meal periods raise a rebuttable presumption of meal period violations, including at the summary judgment stage. Donohue v. AMN Services, LLC, No. S253677 (February 25, 2021).
