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Protecting Your Bottom Line: Adjusting Supply Chain Contracts to Mitigate Tariff Impacts

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Recent shifts in international tariff policies have created significant uncertainty for US importers. As a buyer, revisiting your supply contracts now can help safeguard your business from unexpected costs and disruptions. ...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Weathering the Storm: Contract Strategies for Supply Chain Resilience in the UK and US

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In the post-Covid era, we are all familiar with the concept of supply chain disruption. International supply chains have been impacted by war in Ukraine, geopolitical tensions, extreme weather events and climate change. They...more

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California Courts Weigh in on Contractual Obligations in the Era of COVID-19

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As discussed in previous updates, courts across the country continue to grapple with the application of force majeure provisions in contracts, as well as the related legal doctrines of impossibility, frustration of purpose,...more

Hicks Johnson

A Practitioner’s Guide to COVID-19-Related Force Majeure Disputes

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The predicted wave of force majeure litigation related to COVID-19 has now become reality. Lawsuits are increasingly being filed by parties to contractual disputes, and practitioners are increasingly being called upon to...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

5 Things You Need to Know About the Recent Illinois Ruling on Force Majeure and COVID-19

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The first reported substantive ruling by a judge sitting in Illinois on the legal implications of whether COVID-19 and the resulting governmental shelter-in-place orders relieve a tenant’s obligation to pay rent pursuant to a...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Protecting Your Business from Liability for COVID-19 Transmission

As businesses continue to evaluate current operations and how they will modify them as shelter-in-place orders are lifted and employees and customers return, it is important for each business to anticipate potential COVID-19...more

Buchalter

Buchalter Client Alert COVID-19: Opposite Sides of the Table: Restaurants Seek Recovery From Insurers for Business Interruption in...

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As COVID-19 cases have continued to spread across the country resulting in government-issued “shelter in place” orders, few industries have felt the impact as swiftly and deeply as the restaurant industry. Indeed, such...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The REAL Trending Litigation Topics Regarding COVID-19

A trend is emerging with recently filed litigation involving the COVID-19 pandemic. We are committed to providing information that allows businesses to react as quickly as possible to avert civil litigation threats or to...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus as a contractual force majeure event: A simple checklist

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Email overload on whether the new coronavirus, COVID-19, triggers a force majeure clause? Whether you're considering a claim, worried about receiving one or busy drafting following the outbreak, here's our 10-point,...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Coronavirus and Contractual Performance Disputes - Does a Pandemic Excuse Performance of Contractual Obligations?

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The daily headlines are reminders of the far-reaching economic ripple effects of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The pandemic is forcing companies to abruptly alter strategies and business plans that seemed...more

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog

Coronavirus Update – Are You Covered?

In January, we were among the first to post on the insurance implications of coronavirus. Since then, the epidemic has landed on our shores, dragged down the stock market, and become a political football. It has affected...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Force Majeure: Can It Be Applicable in Case of Failure to Perform the Contract Due to the COVID-19 Outbreak?

For more than a month, China has been suffering from the COVID-19 outbreak, leading to strict containment measures and the standstill of many production plants of raw materials or parts. ...more

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