Physician With Long COVID Wins Claim Seeking Long-Term Benefits
Studies have shown that long COVID, a constellation of debilitating symptoms that persist after an initial COVID-19 infection, has resulted in significant disability for many. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that symptoms of long COVID such as brain fog and fatigue have affected nearly 7% of all American adults and limited their ability to work. […]
How Has COVID-19 Affected Deadlines Relating to Employee Benefits?
The ERISA statute and regulations include guidelines for timing of certain acts that employers need to perform, as well as deadlines for employees. […]
New Research Offers Clues for How to Prove Disability Due to Long Covid
An estimated one in three people who contract Covid-19 will continue to experience symptoms months later, even if their initial symptoms were mild or absent. Known as “long Covid,” this disease is only beginning to be understood, but one of its more […]
COVID Brings Disability, Accidental Death Coverage Questions
Covid-19 has not just raised a host of medical challenges for the medical profession. In addition to public health questions that have resulted from doctors being faced with a novel virus that has behaved differently from other diseases encountered by medical science, Covid has also raised several questions about various kinds of insurance […]
The Carrot or the Stick? Can Employers Mandate That All Employees Receive Vaccinations?
As 2022 is coming into view and the Covid-19 pandemic is still with us, many employers are establishing workplace policies requiring that all employees be vaccinated. But instituting such policies raise several legal issues that complicate employers’ plans to have a fully vaccinated workforce. We explore both the issues and the solution below.[…]