On May 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended the compliance deadline by 45 days for providers who are receiving payments from the Provider Relief Fund to accept the Terms and Conditions for Provider Relief Fund payments. This extension means providers now have 90 days from the date they received a payment to ...
On May 26, 2020, Christi Grimm, the Principal Deputy Inspector General of the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) briefed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform on the OIG’s oversight efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this briefing she reported that the OIG will audit the disbursement of funds ...
Gus Lazares & Dan Burke
Last month we told you that that OSHA had relaxed the COVID-19 recording requirements for employers. OSHA recently rescinded that guidance and will now require all employers to record a COVID-19 illness if it is work-related. To aid employers in these determinations, OSHA has provided additional clarification as to how ...
The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services published a Self-Certification form requiring parents or guardians of children attending child care centers to certify their compliance with certain social distancing and prevention requirements. Child care centers are to retain a copy of the completed self-certification in each ...
Update: May 29, 2020
by Kathie McDonald-McClure, Partner
As we previously reported, on May 11, 2020, Governor Andy Beshear began reopening sectors of Kentucky’s economy, in addition to the healthcare sector, that were closed due to the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency (PHE). The reopening, called Healthy at Work, is ...
Michelle D. Wyrick and Joseph Profancik, a 2020 Summer Associate
As the country sets its sights on reopening the economy, many Americans are understandably hesitant to return to work. Although most states claim that COVID-19 has seen its peak, the number of daily infections reminds us that the virus is still looming all across the nation ...
Michelle D. Wyrick and Joseph Profancik, a 2020 Summer Associate
As the country sets its sights on reopening the economy, many Americans are understandably hesitant to return to work. Although most states claim that COVID-19 has seen its peak, the number of daily infections reminds us that the virus is still looming all across the nation ...
The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Small Business Administration (SBA) celebrated the holiday weekend early by releasing new Interim Final Rules (Rules) concerning the Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) forgiveness calculation. In general, the Rules build upon the application for forgiveness which ...
Interim Final Rules issued by the Small Business Administration and Treasury Department late Friday night provide additional guidance to lenders on forgiveness of loans made under the Paycheck Protection Program. Under the rules:
Lender’s Duties With Respect to Forgiveness Applications. For all loan forgiveness ...
By: Matt Lubozynski
The Supreme Court recently decided another intellectual property case in Lucky Brand Dungarees, Inc. v. Marcel Fashions Grp., Inc., No. 18-1086, 2020 WL 2477020, at *2 (U.S. May 14, 2020) (“Lucky Brand”). Although the case concerned trademark infringement, the issue before the Supreme Court went to whether to recognize ...