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This 20th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, finds both plaintiffs and defendants with reasons to celebrate. Insurance carriers avoided consolidation of coverage disputes in...more
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This 15th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, showcases new and evolving trends. This week we note how COVID-19 has accelerated a pre-existing trend toward class action litigation. And...more
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Starting Monday, April 27, 2020 and lasting for thirty (30) days, Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s “Safer at Home” Executive Order goes into effect as part of a phased plan designed to allow Coloradans to begin to return to...more
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In an April 4, 2020 administrative order, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy gave New Jersey municipalities and counties the authority to restrict hotels, motels, guest houses and private residences from accepting new transient...more
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