It’s on. It’s off. It’s on again … and this time they really mean it. Maybe. Probably possibly for sure. Clear as mud, right? Under the cover of darkness Friday night, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati lifted the “stay” on the OSHA Vaccine mandate. OSHA actually took a victory lap at midnight Friday night while opponents ...
By: Mitzi D. Wyrick
Challenges are pending to several portions of President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan, including the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for employers with 100 or more employees, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate for certain ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
UKG, Inc., a company that provides payroll support services known as KRONOS for many U.S. companies, began notifying its customers on December 12, 2021, that the KRONOS Private Cloud (KPC) had been attacked by ransomware. The KPC products include Workforce Central, TeleStaff, Healthcare Extensions and Banking ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On December 15, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered a nationwide preliminary injunction that barred enforcement of the vaccine mandate for healthcare staff of Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities be lifted for all states except the 14 plaintiff states named in the suit. The ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on December 2, 2021 that “it has suspended activities related to the implementation and enforcement” of its Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring health care staff in Medicare-and Medicaid-certified facilities to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
Both the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) expanded booster eligibility on December 9, 2021 to include 16 and 17-year olds. The FDA amended the emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to now include authorization of a single ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
Governor Beshear declared a State of Emergency on December 9, 2021, addressing the nursing shortage across the Commonwealth, which the Governor said at his weekly news conference is “operating 12 to 20 percent short of needed nursing volume.” The emergency order, among other things, directs the Kentucky Board of ...
At a time when the terms “Omicron” “Delta” and “COVID” have become part of our daily vocabulary, one of the biggest issues facing employers is keeping their employees safe, healthy, and COVID free. While we rarely see claims for the flu, a cold, or other common illnesses filed as workers’ compensation claims, COVID-19 ...
By: Margaret Young Levi
On November 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the government from enforcing the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all covered contracts in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. As we previously reported ...
By: Margaret Young Levi
As we previously reported, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule on November 5, 2021 that requires nearly every employee, volunteer, and contractor working at 15 categories of Medicare and Medicaid healthcare facilities to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4 ...
By: Lindsay K. Scott
On November 23, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that $35 million of American Rescue Plan funding is available to enhance and expand the telehealth infrastructure and capacity of Title X family planning providers. Title X grantees, dedicated to providing individuals with comprehensive ...
Graydon is pleased announce that Hunter Brill LLC has merged into Graydon. Jennifer M. Brill and Nicole R. Hunter have joined Graydon as part of this merger.
“Jennifer and Nicole bring a wealth of workers’ compensation experience representing businesses and employers throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, that will complement and expand ...
By: Stephen C. Hall
When the inventors of an endometrial ablation system – a device for treating abnormal uterine bleeding – made their invention in 1998, they likely were optimistic for an exit event, but they probably didn’t anticipate a Supreme Court case twenty-three years later based on their technology. Minerva Surgical, Inc. v ...