By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that more than $413 million in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments had been distributed to over 3,600 providers across the country. As part of the fourth round of PRF Phase 4 payments, these payments will “reimburse smaller providers for ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On Monday, March 21, 2022, the Kentucky Legislature voted to override Governor Andy Beshear’s Veto of Senate Joint Resolution 150 (the “Resolution”), effectively ending the state declaration of emergency relating to COVID-19 issued by Governor Beshear over two years ago. The state of emergency was set to end on ...
By: Julie Laemmle Watts
The Occupational Safety and Health Organization (“OSHA”) has partially reopened the comment period for its rule on Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings, the permanent healthcare COVID-19 standard, which was published in the Federal Register on March 23, 2022. Comments are due by April 22, 2022 ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
As part of President Biden’s National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan aimed at helping Americans move forward from the pandemic safely, the Biden Administration has launched the Test to Treat initiative, which became effective March 7, 2022.
Through the initiative, those who test positive for COVID-19 and are deemed ...
By: Lindsay K. Scott
On March 15, 2022, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 was enacted into law. This spending bill extends certain telehealth waivers permitting patients to be located in their homes and other settings in order to receive telehealth services, allowing rural health clinics to be designated “distant sites” eligible ...
By: R. Joseph Stennis, Jr.
On March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (“Act”). This landmark legislation, which had strong bipartisan support, amends the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) for those individuals who allege they were sexually ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On March 10, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco announced that Associate Deputy Attorney General Kevin Chambers will serve as the Director of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was created to identify and prosecute fraud related to the roughly $6 trillion in federal aid that Congress made ...
By: Alexa J. Elder
On February 14, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that social media influencer and wedding dress designer Hayley Paige Gutman (“Gutman”) can maintain exclusive control over the “misshayleypaige” TikTok account but must share access to the “misshayleypaige” Instagram ...
By: Jordan M. White
On February 18, 2022, legislation relating to frivolous lawsuits designed to restrict the exercise of a person’s constitutional rights passed the House by a vote of 82-0. In Kentucky politics, bipartisan support for a bill is rare, and downright unanimity is unheard of. HB 222 is known as an anti-SLAPP law—Strategic ...
In February 2022, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Iowa against Walmart alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for sex and race discrimination. The race discrimination claim is based on the allegation that the employee, who is Black, was provided an “unsanitary storage ...