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August 26, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: What Does FDA Approval Mean for Employer Vaccination Mandates?

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry. While as a general rule, employers can mandate the COVID vaccine, or...

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August 23, 2021

Illinois Legislature Enacts Law Regulating Restrictive Covenants

On August 13, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed a new law regulating restrictive covenants in employment agreements involving Illinois employees, to be effective January 1, 2022. The impacted restrictive covenants are (i) covenants not-to-compete (e.g.,...

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August 20, 2021

What Are My Constitutional Rights for Eminent Domain Appeals in Ohio?

In the last five years, several new cases have come before Ohio’s Supreme Court related to eminent domain (ED) law, as well as the rulings, rights, and amendments surrounding Ohio’s ED process. It can be a complex issue to follow, so to ground mys...

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August 19, 2021

OSHA Revises its COVID-19 Guidance to Incorporate the CDC’s Latest Recommendations

On August 13, 2021, OSHA released updated guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. The revised guidance incorporates the CDC’s recommendation that vaccinated employees wear masks indoors in areas with substantial...

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August 19, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: Saving Private Practice: How Practices can Stay Independent and Thrive in Today’s Health Care Market

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry.  Host Ericka Adler, Roetzel shareholder and Health Law Practice Group...

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August 13, 2021

O Say Can You See? Federal Courts Say Military Members Entitled to Paid Leave

This week, the federal appellate court in Pennsylvania ruled that workers who take leave to serve in the military must be paid for that time if their employers offer other forms of comparable short-term paid leave. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals...

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August 12, 2021

Can I Appeal My Eminent Domain Case in Ohio?

Have you heard? Thanks to a recent decision made by the Ohio Supreme Court (OSC), some of the most common threshold challenges and issues that come up when we pursue cases of eminent domain (ED) are getting the much-needed attention they deserve!...

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August 12, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: The Impact of Immigration Laws on Health Care Professionals and Entrepreneurs

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry.  In this episode, host Ericka Adler, Roetzel shareholder and Health L...

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August 10, 2021

Does Joint & Several Liability Apply to Punitive Damages?

The application of joint and several liability to economic and non-economic damage awards is well established, but its application to punitive damages is less clear. In Ohio, a defendant who is found more than 50% responsible for a plaintiff’s injuri...

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August 09, 2021

A Construction Executive’s Personal Liability for Employment Decisions

"'Tort' is an area of law relating to acts and failures to act for which the courts will impose liability upon one person who has harmed another, physically or financially. The word 'tort' is derived from the medieval Latin term 'tortum,' which means...

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August 05, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: The Nuts and Bolts of Noncompete Agreements Part 2: Executive Order Update

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry.  Host Ericka Adler, Roetzel shareholder and Health Law Practice Group...

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August 04, 2021

Infrastructure legislation means an increase in the use of eminent domain. Is your business ready?

"After decades of inaction, it appears that the time for action on infrastructure has finally come now that the presidency and both houses of Congress are controlled by Democrats." To read the full article, click HERE.

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August 2021

Legal Talk Today: HB 244 and Vaccine Considerations for School Districts

Susan Keating Anderson was a guest on this episode.

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July 30, 2021

Another One Bites the Dust: You Might Be Your Brother Employer’s Keeper (Again)

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a final rule rescinding the Trump administration’s “Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act” rule, which took effect in March 2020 and provides guidance for determining when multiple e...

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July 29, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: The Importance of HR and Workplace Cultural Considerations in Health Care M&A Transactions

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry.  Following a health care practice merger or acquisition, it’s importa...

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July 23, 2021

Stay in or Get Out? Employers Should Evaluate Their Options Under the PBGC’s New Withdrawal Liability Guidance

For employers who contribute to financially-troubled multiemployer pension plans (multiemployer plans), a lot has changed in the last six months. In March, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) which literally rescued multiemploy...

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Summer 2021

Infrastructure and Eminent Domain: What's Coming and What Businesses Should Do About It

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July 22, 2021

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot: The Nuts and Bolts of Noncompete Agreements Part 1

Roetzel HealthLaw HotSpot® is a podcast and YouTube channel for physicians and health professionals that covers the legal issues and trends that affect the health care industry.  Host Ericka Adler, Roetzel shareholder and Health Law Practice Group...

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July 20, 2021

Huge Win for Private Student Loan Borrowers

Student loans are notoriously difficult to shed through the bankruptcy process.  A person must show that it would impose an "undue hardship" on them to be required to repay the student loans, and the test for proving undue hardship has historically b...

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July 19, 2021

The Uncertainty of Uncertified Deposition Recordings: Something New We All Need to Think About

Remote depositions became more prevalent during the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. But when court reporters refused to use video to record depositions because they were not certified to do so, some attorneys took the job upon themselves. Though very...