California Workers’ Comp Study Tracks Inpatient Care Utilization Trends January 5, 2023 A new study shows that after across-the-board declines in California inpatient hospitalizations during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020, the number...
California Occupational Safety Board Votes to Adopt COVID Prevention Regulations December 19, 2022 The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board has adopted COVID-19 prevention non-emergency regulations. The COVID-19 prevention emergency temporary standards...
Arizona Nightclub Wins $1.6M in COVID-19 Lockout Lawsuit August 23, 2022 The operators of a Tucson, Arizona, nightclub have won a $1.6 million settlement against the landlord who locked them out...
Seattle Ending COVID Hazard Pay for Grocery Store Workers August 5, 2022 The Seattle City Council has voted to end COVID-19 hazard pay for grocery store workers. The Seattle Times reports the...
Doctors Look to Athletes for Clues to COVID’s Heart Impacts July 6, 2022 By Meredith Cohn Doctors learned early in the pandemic that COVID-19 was more than a respiratory disease. It was attacking bodily organs, including...
Appeals Court First to Rule in Favor of Coverage for COVID Shutdown June 17, 2022 By Jim Sams The attorney who filed the first U.S. lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a business shut down because of coronavirus won...
Case of COVID Same as Vaccine, Tennessee Law Says May 2, 2022 Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declined to sign off on a new law requiring governments and businesses to treat immunity from...
Biden Orders Push on Long COVID, Pandemic’s Shadowy Mystery April 11, 2022 By Ricardo Alonso- Zaldiv and Zeke Miller Confronting the pandemic’s lasting shadow, President Joe Biden on April 5 ordered a new national research push on long COVID,...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections February 22, 2022 By Kristian Hernández Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last...
COVID Spike Forcing Florida Hospital’s Maternity Ward to Close, For Now January 5, 2022 A South Florida hospital has temporarily closed its maternity ward due to staff-shortages related to recent outbreaks of COVID-19. Mothers-to-be...