May 22, 2020 Austin W. Manning MGKF Litigation Blog In two recent decisions, courts have continued to preclude “classic” tort claims without proof of a current symptomatic condition and to place substantial limits on medical monitoring clams under state common law. In Benoit v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation, No. 17-3941 (2d […]
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COVID-19 emergency statutes, orders, rules and policies have upended the traditional schedules for municipal and regional boards and commissions, as well as state agencies, to act on land use applications for zoning, subdivision, wetlands, board of health, and other permits and approvals. This leaves the landowner, developer, builder, lender, investor, […]
May 21, 2020 Austin W. Manning MGKF Litigation Blog As we forecasted earlier this year, the uptick in medical monitoring cases surviving the motion to dismiss phase in federal court continues. Most recently, Judge Joseph R. Goodwin for the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia denied […]
COVID-19 UPDATE May 21, 2020 Jill Hyman Kaplan MGKF Special Alert In our April 16 Special Alert, we summarized OSHA’s April 10 Enforcement Guidance which indicated OSHA would not require most employers to make a work-relatedness determination for employees with COVID-19. On Tuesday, May 19, OSHA reversed this position. Under the […]
May 21, 2020 Federal Final SECURE Rule Will Update And Modernize USDA’s Biotechnology Regulations On May 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Hvealth Inspection Service (APHIS) issued the much-anticipated final Sustainable, Ecological, Consistent, Uniform, Responsible, Efficient (SECURE) rule. 85 Fed. Reg. 29790. The rule is […]