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COVID litigation, lessons for businesses from the courtroom

Business Management Daily

From risk to exposure and wrongful death claims to leave denial, the ADA, retaliation cases, and more, businesses find themselves in tricky legal situations. That assumes, of course, that they were present in the workplace. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARP) created a workplace exposure presumption.

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Innovation is Necessary to Meet the Challenge of COVID in 2022

Workers' Compensation

The issues will include: evaluating temporary disability benefits, delivering medical treatment, and estimating the nature and extent of disability. New sequencing testing provides hope to speed identification and treatment, and those should be rapidly deployed in the workers’ compensation medical delivery system over the next few weeks.

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AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT CONTAINS MANY EMPLOYEE BENEFITS RELATED PROVISIONS

Benefits Notes

On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “ARPA”) into law. All group health plans that provide major medical benefits subject to federal COBRA rules are subject to the ARPA COBRA rules. Subsidized COBRA. The ARPA contains several new rules which impact COBRA benefits. Tax Credit.

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Are Workers’ Comp Insurers ready for what comes next in the COVID-19 crisis?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

For workers’ compensation insurers, there are additional complications in their day-to-day operations. The medical and rehabilitation services often provided by workers’ compensation typically are very “hands on”. The degree to which this challenge may impact particular insurers remains to be seen but the risk is real.