X
20Oct

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Centralizes Some COVID-19 Related Insurance Cases

Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Centralizes Some COVID‐19 Related Insurance Cases As reported in our September update, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation at its July 2020 hearing session requested further briefing to assess whether insurer‐specific MDLs should be created. On October 2, 2020, the Panel determined that it was appropriate to centralize 34 business interruption actions against Society Insurance Company, a regional insurer operating in six Midwestern states....
By: Rivkin Radler LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/judicial-panel-on-multidistrict-80721/

Related

New California Law Makes It Much Tougher to Treat Workers as Independent Contractors

Assembly Bill 5, signed into law on September 18, generally codifies Dynamex and establishes difficu...

Read More >

Coronavirus and the Workplace - Part II: Non-discrimination

Part II: Non-discrimination - The increasing fear around COVID-19, which was first detected in Chi...

Read More >

The Who, What, and When on Illinois’s Mandatory Sexual Harassment Prevention Training

Now a little more than one month into the new year, Illinois employers are under pressure to comply ...

Read More >

Chain Reaction Accidents

Chain reaction accidents present challenging questions of liability, and proving your right to compe...

Read More >

Offshore Oil Rig Workers’ Overtime Claims Governed by FLSA, Not California Law

On June 10, 2019, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled that state wage and hour ...

Read More >