To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Key Points: A Louisiana appeals court found it plausible that the coronavirus pandemic had caused “direct physical loss or damage” to a New Orleans restaurant’s property and accordingly found coverage for the resulting losses under the restaurant’s property insurance…
We saw in last year’s GBCI report that many had introduced measures to alleviate pressure on businesses during the pandemic. These included tax exemptions, increasing employee rights and the acceleration of digital reporting. The changes were introduced to lessen financial or administrative stresses but often led to higher complexity for businesses. As the world emerges…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Since the tariffs on steel and the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction industry has been reeling from the impact of material shortages and price increases, labor shortages, breakdowns in the supply chain and the inflationary effect of…
30 June 2022 Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In the first ruling from a federal appellate court examining COVID-19-related layoffs and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held in…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In March 2020, the aggressive spread of COVID-19 cases created uncertainty and economic chaos for businesses in Canada. One British Columbia employer took the step of laying off a significant number of its employees. This step, taken by many other…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused considerable uncertainty across the business landscape. Depending on the sector, a number of businesses have been in survival mode, hunkering down and waiting for conditions to improve. The survival of those who managed to operate…
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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. For better or worse the COVID-19 Pandemic has changed our everyday lives including for the legal profession and how we practice the law today. The introduction of COVID-19 measures including, social distancing, isolation & quarantine, physical distancing and border closures,…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. A recent decisionone has demonstrated that a dismissal for refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19, in the absence of a Government direction can be found to be fair. In this case, the worker’s absolute refusal, coupled with his demand that…
Death certificates have proven notoriously inaccurate for a variety of reasons, usually because they are incomplete and/or the certifier doesn’t really know the patient’s medical history. (See our previous article, “Death Certificate Only? Not the Death of Your Case”.) Even so, national and state agencies still use death certificates for mortality statistics. US mortality data…
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Bottom Line Of Michalski v. McMaster University, 2022 ONSC 2625, the Ontario Divisional Court dismissed a judicial review application challenging McMaster University’s (the “University”) mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy (the “Policy”). The application was brought by four students (the “Applicants”) who were refused a creed-based exemption under the Policy. The Court found that the University used…
