Small business owners who have suffered economic losses due to coronavirus business closures may soon get some much-needed relief. The Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) is allocating up to $61,000,000 in no-to-low interest loans to provide critical working capital financing...
President Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law on March 18, 2020. This initial coronavirus relief bill contains two provisions that provide paid leave to employees forced to miss work because of the COVID-19 outbreak: an emergency...
There are many issues affecting the Employer/Employment Relationship During the Covid-19 pandemic. Many employers and employees have questions regarding the impact the pandemic may have on employment related matters such as unemployment compensation (UC), workers compensation (WC), and health insurance...
Due to the COVID-19 stay at home order issued by Governor Wolf, questions are arising related to custody exchanges and court filings to address issues. The Chester County Court of Common Pleas, Family Division issued the following clarification to navigate...
There are a lot of questions swirling about regarding eligibility for Unemployment Compensation or Worker’s Compensation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is some basic information to help employers and employees navigate some of these potential employment issues....
If you are a small business owner wondering whether your business income or business interruption insurance policy will help ease your company’s pain during the coronavirus outbreak, the answer, unfortunately, is probably no. Let’s start with the basics. If you...
While correspondence has most likely been received from various state associations recommending municipal responses to the novel coronavirus (known as COVID-19), we thought it was important to pass along some legal considerations you may want to think about as you...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis[i] and Rachel E. Lusk- Klebanoff. On January 15, 2020, the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion...
Family Using New Evidence In Effort To Change Ellen Greenberg’s Mysterious Death From Suicide To Homicide PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Experts still can’t agree if the death of a teacher in her Manayunk apartment nine years ago was a suicide or...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis[i] and Rachel E. Lusk. On November 15, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule updating its advisory opinion regulations, codified at...
At the beginning of 2019, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht issued an opinion in the closely watched case Gallagher v. Geico in which he decried what he saw as the court “upending … well-established precedent” and supplanting its own...
Legal Intelligencer article by Lamb McErlane PC Health Law Attorneys Vasilios J. Kalogredis[i] and Rachel E. Lusk. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is a web-based repository of reports containing information on medical malpractice payments and certain adverse actions related...