Topic
COVID-19 liability
63 published works
California Workplace Law Blog
California Supreme Court Rules Against COVID-19 Take-Home Exposure Liability for Employers
By David G. Hoiles, Jr., Lauren R. Presser
The California Supreme Court in Kuciemba v. Victory Woodworks, Inc was asked to rule on two questions by the 9th Circuit: If an employee contracts COVID-19 at the workplace and…
Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
California Supremes Set Bounds on Employer Duty to Non-Workers
By David S. Wilson and Joshua A. Rodine Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Supreme Court unanimously held that while claims brought by an employee’s spouse for COVID injury are not barred by the Workers’ Compensation…
Musings by Jim
California Supreme Court rules that Employers Are not responsible for COVID spread to workers’ families
By Jim Beyer
July 10, 2023 This past Thursday, the California Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, ruled that employers aren’t liable for their employees contracting COVID-19 at work and spreading it to…
SimplyHR
Employment Law 2021 Recap and 2022 Forecast for Missouri and Illinois
By Nick Coyle, Lauren Daming, Lauren Harris
Missouri Other than a new state minimum wage ($11.15 per hour), 2022 is starting off quietly in Missouri. However, last year brought two major developments affecting employers that are summarized…
New Jersey Law Blog
COVID-19 Immunity Law for Community Associations Expires January 1, 2022
By Mary W. Barrett, A. Christopher Florio
As we reported in our previous blog, on July 1, 2021 Governor Murphy signed a COVID-19 liability protection bill and, by doing so, gave community associations some immunity from certain…
Agricultural Law and Taxation Blog
Caselaw Update
OverviewIt’s been a while since I highlighted a few recent cases for the blog. Today is that day. Recently, the court have decided cases about a packing plant’s potential liability…
Employment Law Watch
Overview of several new workplace laws Texas employers should know about following the recent legislative sessions
By Paulo McKeeby, Michael Lombardino
The Texas Legislature has been quite busy over the most recent regular and two specially-called legislative sessions. It adjourned its second specially-called legislative session on September 2, 2021. Additional bills…
Plane-ly Spoken
Court Says “No!” to Covid Liability
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, people have wondered how the courts will handle the inevitable lawsuits by employees and customers alleging that a business negligently exposed them to…
Product Perspective: Complex Tort & Product Law
PREP Act Offers Immunity to Product Manufacturers and Premises Owners from COVID-19 Liability
By Ryan White, James O'Shea II
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) may provide immunity to product manufacturers and premises owners who face liability from their administration or use of antivirals, drugs, biologics,…
Health Law Prof Blog
Crops, Livestock, and COVID-19, Oh My: An Overview of Potential COVID-19 Liability in Agricultural Operations
Paul Goeringer (University of Maryland), Julie Walker (University of Maryland), Crops, Livestock, and COVID-19, Oh My: An Overview of Potential COVID-19 Liability in Agricultural Operations, 8 Tex. A&M L. Rev.…