U.S. SUPREME COURT STAYS OSHA VACCINATION AND TESTING ETS PENDING FURTHER LITIGATION As we have previously advised, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring private employers with 100 or more employees to implement policies requiring employees either to be vaccinated, or to choose…
On March 29, 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation protecting certain business entities, educational institutions, governmental entities, religious institutions, and individuals from liability for claims related to COVID-19. The law is designed to curb the threat of unknown and potentially unlimited liability to such entities and institutions, some of which…
On March 29, 2021, Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation protecting certain business entities, educational institutions, governmental entities, religious institutions, and individuals from liability for claims related to COVID-19. The law is designed to curb the threat of unknown and potentially unlimited liability to such entities and institutions, some of which…
Late on the evening of December 21, 2020, in a rare showing of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives and Senate overwhelmingly (the House voted 359 to 53, and the Senate voted 92-6) passed legislation to provide additional relief to Americans and their businesses hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. On…
Since the start of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) in April, business lawyers and their clients who received PPP loans, as well as the lenders who made the PPP loans, have been perplexed over how to treat the PPP loan when the borrower undergoes a change of ownership. The Small…
After a hiatus of over a month, on August 4, 2020, the Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) issued a new set of Frequently Asked Questions (the “New FAQs”). Unlike its previous FAQs (the last of which were issued on June 25th), which were a compendium in no particular order of…
On July 3, 2020, the President signed legislation extending the application deadline for small businesses to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). The original deadline to apply for a PPP loan was June 30, 2020. Both houses of Congress unanimously passed the “PPP Extension Act” last week, and with…
The Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) continues to issue additional guidance for borrowers and lenders under the Payroll Protection Program (“PPP”) Flexibility Act of 2020 (the “PPP Flexibility Act”). This week, three additional Interim Final Rules and additional Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) were published. The first Interim Final Rule (the…
The Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) last week issued a new Interim Final Rule on PPP loan forgiveness (the “Update Forgiveness IFR”) and provided two new Loan Forgiveness Applications. For the most part, these new publications implement the changes made by the PPP Flexibility Act (see Trenam Alerts: “What Will…
As the real estate market braces for the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Rob Stern provided insight on how landlords and lenders may fair in a June 17, 2020 article by Tampa Bay Times. Governor DeSantis extended his April 2 moratorium on evictions twice, which means it will end…
