On Monday, July 11, 2022, Governor Roy Cooper announced that he would end North Carolina’s State of Emergency in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic on August 15, 2022, nearly two and one-half years after first declaring it....more
March 10, 2021, marked the one-year anniversary of Governor Cooper’s COVID-19 emergency declaration in Executive Order No. 116. Last year the General Assembly passed a civil immunity statute for our health care heroes....more
The North Carolina General Assembly voted yesterday, June 23, 2020, in overwhelmingly bipartisan fashion to expand the immunity protections that it created last month in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. House Bill 118 (HB...more
The North Carolina General Assembly enacted the COVID-19 Recovery Act (SB 704 “An Act to Provide Aid to North Carolinians in Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Crisis”) on May 2, 2020. The legislation...more