How Has COVID-19 Affected Deadlines Relating to Employee Benefits?
The ERISA statute and regulations include guidelines for timing of certain acts that employers need to perform, as well as deadlines for employees. […]
New Research Offers Clues for How to Prove Disability Due to Long Covid
An estimated one in three people who contract Covid-19 will continue to experience symptoms months later, even if their initial symptoms were mild or absent. Known as “long Covid,” this disease is only beginning to be understood, but one of its more […]
COVID Brings Disability, Accidental Death Coverage Questions
Covid-19 has not just raised a host of medical challenges for the medical profession. In addition to public health questions that have resulted from doctors being faced with a novel virus that has behaved differently from other diseases encountered by medical science, Covid has also raised several questions about various kinds of insurance […]
The Carrot or the Stick? Can Employers Mandate That All Employees Receive Vaccinations?
As 2022 is coming into view and the Covid-19 pandemic is still with us, many employers are establishing workplace policies requiring that all employees be vaccinated. But instituting such policies raise several legal issues that complicate employers’ plans to have a fully vaccinated workforce. We explore both the issues and the solution below.[…]
Can I Qualify for Disability Benefits Due to COVID-19?
The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020 has caused over 500,000 deaths in the United States by March 2021, along with over 28 million cases of infection. For most individuals who have contracted COVID-19, the symptoms they have experienced have been relatively mild, but a huge number of COVID patients have required […]
Practical Considerations for Disability Claimants During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a previously unfathomable level of casualties and economic disruption in the United States and worldwide in just a few short weeks. Since mid-March, 16.9 million Americans have filed jobless claims, and one out of every 10 U.S. workers who had employment prior to the pandemic is now jobless. Many people with […]