Walmart negligently caused the death of an employee because the retailer failed to adequately clean its store, enforce social distancing, notify employees about colleagues who were showing coronavirus symptoms, and provide protective gear, such as gloves and masks, alleges the family of a 15-year employee who died on March 25, 2020 from Covid-19 in a wrongful death action filed on Monday in Cook County, Illinois.
Read MoreProbably not, and there’s good reason for it. If you visit the dentist, if you get your haircut, or if you venture to a pool this summer, then you will likely be asked to sign away your right to sue if exposure leads to infection of Covid-19. For example, the waiver required to register for Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa made national news, reading as follows:
Read MoreAs predicted, Mazurkiewicz’s duties exposed her to the disease beginning in March; however, despite that exposure, she contends that Northwestern Memorial provided protective equipment that failed to adequately protect against the spread of covid-19. Law360 reports that she distributed an email to colleagues and supervisors to express her concern, stating that N-95 face masks, as opposed to the ones Northwestern Memorial required nurses to wear, filter out 95% of airborne particles, and thus, N-95 masks are dramatically better suited to protect patients, staff, and employees against the disease.
Read MoreCongress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act) on March 27, 2020, a bill with a $2 Trillion budget that aims to blunt the impact of the sharp and sudden recession the Covid-19 pandemic injected into the American economy. In a matter of weeks, scores of Americans lost their jobs, many more shuttered their businesses, and students nationwide hit pause on their education, plunging the country into scary and uncharted waters as the nation continues to battle the pandemic.
Read MoreA couple filed a lawsuit against Princess Cruise Lines Ltd. on Monday, March 9, 2020, alleging that the cruise line failed to take reasonable precautions to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) to passengers and crew members while onboard. It was the first of its kind when filed.
Read MoreNorth Carolina law allows an unforeseeable supervening event to excuse a person’s performance on an already executed contract. A sudden pandemic like the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) is a supervening event that can call on these legal protections when performance is no longer possible, practical, or purposeful.
Read MoreLast week, Reuters reported that profiteers were listing face masks for sale on Amazon at inflated prices amid rising concern over the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). Opportunistic retailers started to charge prices four to five times higher than the price for the same product weeks before the hysteria spread, according to WIRED’s story earlier that week.
Read MoreThere is not a known cure for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19). As researchers hasten to learn more about the virus, that is one fact upon which all health experts and organizations around the globe agree.
That is, except for Sherril Sellman, a so-called “natural health expert,” who falsely implied a liquid called Silver Solution eliminates and kills the virus. She made these provably false claims during an interview with Jim Bakker, whose televangelist production company sold the product for profit as part of its ministry in Missouri.
Read MoreOn the morning of January 26, 2020, a helicopter with nine people aboard, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed into the side of a mountain in Calabasas, California, killing them all. His wife, Vanessa Bryant, visited the responding substation for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office in-person to request the office to designate the area a no-fly zone in the immediate aftermath of the crash.
Read MoreIn a little more than a decade, Airbnb and similarly situated short-term rental companies have revolutionized the travel industry through the establishment of user-friendly platforms that connect guests with hosts at locations across the globe. Guests can now customize their travel experience from their palms while property owners can open their doors to increase income with minimal risk of loss.
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