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The Legal Intelligencer

How the Employee Retention Tax Credit May Be Beneficial to Health Care Clients

As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) signed by President Donald Trump March 27, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) launched the employee retention credit program designed to encourage businesses, including many of our for-profit and nonprofit health care clients.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Half of Florida's COVID-19 Deaths Linked to Long-Term Care

The numbers of deaths in nursing homes and assisted living facilities from COVID-19 have increased at a far faster rate in recent weeks than deaths in the broader population.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

State Bar Group Calls for 'Mandatory' COVID-19 Vaccinations, Regardless of Objections

"Some Americans may push back on the COVID-19 vaccination for religious, philosophical or personal reasons," says the report released on Thursday by the NYSBA, but, it says, "for the sake of public health, mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19 should be required in the United States as soon as it is available."
5 minute read

The Recorder

Haynes and Boone to Open SF Office, Launch Health Care Niche With McDermott Pair

Roger Kuan will lead a new practice focused on precision medicine and digital health.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Appeals Court Rules Discrimination Case Claiming 'Thinly Veiled' Racial Remarks at Montefiore Must Continue

The plaintiff, wrote the appeals panel, "points to evidence" that a doctor "regularly favored white employees over black employees, by giving white employees better assignments while giving black employees undesirable assignments supposedly more consistent with their ethnicity."
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

When Asbestos Exposure and COVID-19 Intersect

There is relatively little information on the intersection of asbestos exposure and COVID-19 infection, despite the clear connection in risk factors.
6 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Death With Dignity Act Decision Should Stand

We hope the decision will be upheld on appeal. The Legislature finally heeded the obvious need, and judicial call, for detailed statutory treatment of this element of end-of-life conflicts in favor of individual autonomy.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Why 2 Houston Firms Won't Sue Health Care Providers Over COVID-19

Two medical malpractice firms in Houston have announced they will not sue doctors, hospitals or nursing homes over COVID-19 treatment, because, they say, there's no standard of care yet.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Polsinelli Bolsters Health Care Practice, Adding UW Medicine Vet in Seattle

"In that space, we want to be the firm that can do everything for you," Polsinelli health care chairman Matthew Murer said. The firm expects Lori Oliver to help with that goal.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

What Asia's COVID-19 Experience Suggests for the West's Return to Work

The pandemic's origination in Asia provides an opportunity for Western-based employers to anticipate what working in the post-pandemic world may look like.
6 minute read

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