In a significant step forward for consumer protection, the Northern District of California confirmed that claims thatBank of America’s (“BofA”) misled its customers with false promisesto provide overdraft fee relief during the COVID-19 pandemic could proceed. The litigation centers on allegations ...
The Eastern District of California, partly relying on California precedent interpreting the pollution exclusion, determined that COVID-19 did not constitute a ‘pollution condition’ in a pollution liability policy. Read more about this court case here: Vision Serv. Plan Plaintiff v. Illinois Union ...
The Association of Yukon Communities met in-person for the first time in two years, adopting three resolutions focusing on extending municipal elected-officials’ term, electricity, and COVID-19 relief funds.Read more… May 12 City of Winnipeg considers permanent remote working plan for employees T...
COVID-19 Emergency Relief Package Signed Into Law On Monday, December 21, 2020, Congress overwhelmingly passed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package and government funding bill, its second effort this year to bring much-needed aid to Americans struggling during the pandemic. The package includes...
I’ve had five of them now, and the pattern seems to be: Get the shot, feel some relief over the next few hours because it doesn’t hurt, then WHAM! It starts hurting not quite as badly as a typhoid shot, but it’s not great, either. This is weird because it seems that the ...
I knew that the sense of relief I felt as we examined the cans was irrational. Our fridge and cupboards were full. The grocery store would get new deliveries the next day. The likelihood of a serious food shortage in America remained, according to experts, extremely small. But the ritual ...
The new bill does not include small business relief for cannabis companies, which have also beenleft out of previous rounds of coronavirus relief funding. “The inclusion of the SAFE Banking Act in the CARES 2 package is a positive development, but one that’s akin to applying a ba...
However, no letter requesting the recall of the House of Commons had yet been sent to Speaker Rota. The government is holding off on that until agreement to pass the bill is reached, rather than repeat what happened last time, when what was supposed to be a brief sitting turned ...
[45]Both the FATF and EAG reports, however, pointed to the far greater risk coming from COVID-19 related fraud, be it in terms of fake (or non-existent) medical equipment, as well as abuse of COVID-19 relief packages offered by governments.[46]A sense of the potential scale of the...
This guide explains the stimulus and relief efforts undertaken by the U.S. government during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more about the support for business and employment.