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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Vice Dean Joshua Sharfstein discusses steps to unwinding Covid policies in the U.S. The Bloomberg School of Public Health is supported by Michael R. Bloomberg, founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not ...

Florida’s Senate has effectively abandoned bipartisan efforts to overturn what critics have derided as the state’s “free kill” law, which generally prevents families from filing medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors or hospitals when the victims are adults. Consumers said the decision in the Republican-controlled Legislature improperly shields negligent doctors. It represents a victory...

Delaware Gov. John Carney has signed into law a bill to permit captives to write Side A directors and officers liability insurance. Side A provides coverage for claims against directors and officers whose costs are not indemnified by the corporation such as with the settlement of derivative suit claims. Senate Bill 203, which amends the state’s general corporation law, passed the legislature ...

Ballot drop box in Florida’s state capital. Credit: leonvotes.gov A University of Florida political scientist testified Wednesday that Florida’s new restrictions on voting access are proving especially burdensome to disabled people and members of the Black and Hispanic communities. Daniel Smith, chairman of UF’s Department of Political Science, said he analyzed data provided by Florida’s supe...

A Democrat-controlled committee in the Virginia State Senate "rejected a bill that would have allowed local governments to adopt stricter energy efficiency codes than the state," reports Sarah Vogelsong for the Virginia Mercury. The reasoning behind the rejection: that new energy efficiency standards would prevent affordable housing development. "Senate Bill 452 from Sen. Jennifer Boysko, D-L...

Pete Crow-Armstrong Keith Law, the baseball prospects writer for The Athletic, revealed his Top 20 prospects in the Cubs system for 2022 on Tuesday. (The Athletic sub. req.) Law calls the current Cubs farm system the best it has been since 2016. Although only one Cubs prospect made Law’s list of the Top 100 prospects in the game, he noted that there were several Cubs prospects bubbling und...

Law Talk Email Button With the increase in ride-sharing services in New York State and the Twin Tiers, what are the requirements for their insurances? Do they have to carry more or less than other vehicles on the road? In this episode of Law Talk, Megan Collins discusses the requirements that they are required to carry and how it can fluctuate based on what they are doing. You can catch Law T...

Next week is Valentine’s Day, which, depending on your point of view, is either an excuse to do something nice for a loved one, or a soulless corporate holiday designed to sell more chocolate. This year, we have something for every Harvard Law student — regardless of where you fall on the issue. Whether you’ve already conveyed your heart (for proper consideration), or you’re out of practice, ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The NSF has awarded ARC a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB investment to accelerate the “ARC Ground-Truth” (ARC-GT) product’s path to market. This funding represents NSF’s and ARC’s shared dedication to enhancing the organizational excellence of law enforcement agencies across the nation by providing them with firearm activity metrics and incide...

On February 7, 2022, the California legislature passed legislation reviving COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave (SPSL). The law creates new California Labor Code Section 248.6 and takes effect ten days after Governor Newsom signs the legislation, which we expect is imminent. It applies to all employers with 26 or more employees and will be retroactive to January 1, 2022. The provision is se...