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COVID-19 Response Team: Workers’ Compensation Work From Home Injuries
Our COVID-19 Response Team examines each jurisdiction where we have offices and discusses the implications of the pandemic on work from home injuries. Workers' Compensation Work From Home Injuries Newsletter - 5/29/2020
The Case Progresses: Remote Work, A Doctor’s Note, and Purported Layoff (or Unlawful Termination?)
This is a follow up to a post last week in which I provided a short commentary on a developing story about the Maine radio personality who was purportedly the subject of a claimed layoff. The long-time, seasoned employee claims she was terminated because she did not return to work [...]
Courthouses and Statehouses Consider Pandemic Coverage Claims
In early 2020, even as the COVID-19 virus spread beyond China and took root on the North American continent, industry analysts confidently predicted that U.S. property insurers would largely escape the pernicious effects of this pandemic in light of their policies’ "direct physical loss" requirements as well as virus exclusions [...]
Courtney M.M. Person Named Secretary of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association
Morrison Mahoney Associate Courtney M.M. Person has been elected Secretary of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association (MBLA) for 2020-2021. This is her first time holding a leadership position in the organization.
An Interesting Case to Watch: Remote Work, A Doctor’s Note, and Purported Layoff (or Unlawful Termination?)
A Maine radio personality was recently the subject of a claimed layoff according to her employer, but according to the employee, she was terminated because she did not return to work due to concerns about COVID-19. This story is likely just one of many that will be the subject of [...]
COVID-19 Probably Broke Your Organization’s Telework Cyber Policy. Here’s How to Fix it
If you are like many Americans, you are probably reading this as you telework from home while weathering the COVID-19 storm. It is also probable that your organization has some sort of a telework cybersecurity policy, either as a limited part of its greater information security program, or one that [...]
