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This is the month when it was all due to happen: after years of planning and preparing, the MDR was finally due to take effect on 26 May 2020.

To slow the spread of the coronavirus, millions of United States workers are under government orders to stay at home. However, many businesses considered "essential critical infrastructure"...

Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine issued several orders earlier this week that strengthen restrictions affecting businesses, employees, customers, and travelers.

With about half of the U.S. working age, vaccine-eligible population now vaccinated, employers want to know which of their employees got the shot. Many employers are under the impression that...

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economics Security Act (the "CARES Act") provided additional funding for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' ("Department") Public Health...

Now more than ever businesses need to be able to quickly and efficiently communicate with clients and customers about issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

CMS has issued a series of updated guidance documents focused on infection control to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in a variety of inpatient and outpatient care settings.

As the number of COVID-19 cases reach 45,000 in Harris County as of July 13, 2020, which includes the city of Houston, Governor Greg Abbott has halted additional reopening phases but has been reluctant to extend the "stay home, work safe" order issued for the county in March.

With coronavirus transmission rates again rising rapidly, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on November 30 the state's "Winter Plan" to combat COVID-19.

Some of us belong to the Food and Drug Law Institute.

Republican leaders urged their House Democrat counterparts to hold a joint hearing regarding the undercounting of COVID-19 deaths in New York nursing homes.

Two recent court decisions have suggested that the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 247d-6d, may not protect employers who are...

Employers now have greater clarity on how the new federal requirements covering COVID-19 testing and diagnosis apply to their group health plans, under guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, ...

COVID-19 took the world by surprise and continues to spread across the globe in more than 210 countries and counting. The outbreak in the United States escalated rapidly, with over 585,000...

When we discussed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act earlier this year, we predicted that its tort liability protections...

On Friday, April 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") began distributing $30B of the $100B appropriated in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security ("CARES") Act to the Public Health...

As health care institutions move into the uncharted territory of testing and treating patients in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, they are facing mounting opposing pressures.

Michigan recently joined a chorus of states adopting protections for businesses and governmental agencies related to COVID-19 exposures and adding protections and requirements for employees.