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Liability
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Ogletree Deakins Insights
Georgia Legislature Passes Bill to Limit Liability From COVID-19-Related Claims
On June 26, 2020, the Georgia General Assembly passed Senate Bill (SB) 359 to limit liability for COVID-19-related claims. The bill, which is titled “Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act,”…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Is a New Extrahazardous Economy Upon Us? May States Choke Off All Worker Injury Rights in Reaction to It?
From the beginning of the pandemic I have harbored an intuition that the most difficult COVID-19 legal issues would manifest not during lockdown but while the economy was reopening. My…
Capital Thinking
Public Policy Briefing – July 9, 2020
By David Stewart, David Schnittger, David LesStrang, Ludmilla Kasulke
The House and Senate will not return to Washington until July 20, but discussions among the “four corners” in the US Congress are underway with the intent of crafting a…
Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law
College Football in 2020: The NCAA’s No-Good-Alternatives Dilemma
By Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law at WFU
By: Kyle Tatich https://pixabay.com/photos/football-american-college-83513/ When it comes to the decisions to suspend, amend, or fully continue fall sports in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the echoes of history are…
Health Care and Life Sciences
Navigating FDA Policies for PPE, and Liability Protections
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been developing and shifting its guidelines for Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, during COVID-19. The Agency has articulated its guidelines for PPE…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
What Exactly is a Liability Shield?
In today’s the Hill a story ran containing in part the following language:More than a thousand COVID-19 lawsuits have been filed in the past six weeks, prompting business groups to…
ContractsProf Blog
Proportional Internalization and Damages Awards
Omri Ben Shahar of the University of Chicago Law School has posted, Who Should Be Liable When Uber Cars Crash on Jotwell which reviews Omer Y. Pelled's article, The Proportional Internalization…
Michael Geist
Why the USMCA Locks in the Internet Platform Liability System in the U.S., Canada and Mexico
U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday signed an executive order targeting Internet platforms after Twitter fact-checked one of his tweets on mail-in voting (the company followed up with a warning on…
Libation Law Blog
Here are the guidelines Illinois issued for bars and restaurants looking to re-open. Get familiar with them as a failure to meet these minimum standards could amount to trouble from regulators and grounds for liability from customers or employees that get sick.
As part of Illinois’s path to re-opening those businesses shut-down or limited by Illinois’s stay at home orders, the state government, through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity,…
California Land Use & Development Law Report
Public Water Running Through a Privately-Owned Pipe is Not Sufficient to Impose Liability on a Public Entity
The County of San Diego could not be held liable for damage caused by leakage from a privately-owned storm drain pipe on private property merely because water from public property…