by Scott Halberstadt | Apr 27, 2022 | COVID-19 Updates, News
While employers generally understand that they owe a duty to maintain the safety of their employees while those employees are in the scope of their employment, can an employer be responsible for the health, welfare and safety of an employee’s family? As a result of...
by Scott Halberstadt | May 12, 2020 | Construction Law - California, News
While it has been more than twenty years since the California Supreme Court determined, in Wm. R. Clarke Corp. v. Safeco Ins. Co., that “pay-if-paid” provisions in subcontracts were unenforceable, following a recent decision from the Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate...
by Scott Halberstadt | Apr 10, 2020 | Business Law, COVID-19 Updates, News
In order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, state, county and city governments have issued various orders requiring the closing of “nonessential” businesses. These closures have had a substantive, negative effect upon businesses throughout the country. ...
by Scott Halberstadt | Mar 26, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates, News
As the personal and financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, federal, state and city governments are cracking down on their citizens’ movements and have ordered residents into semi-isolation. Whether referred to as “shelter-in-place” or “stay-at-home” orders,...
