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Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms... more +
Read guidance, analysis, and updates on the myriad issues arising from the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated hourly every day, the insights published here are written by leading lawyers and law firms helping to make sense of insurance, employment, tax, securities, M&A, risk management, and every other consideration touched by this crisis. Follow the channel for a daily email brief of the latest and best updates. less -
Husch Blackwell LLP

Alabama Enacts 30-Day Exemption to Imposition of Individual Income Tax

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and increased remote work, multistate income tax and payroll tax withholding responsibilities have received heightened consideration nationwide. Employers keen on retaining and attracting...more

Maynard Nexsen

Alabama Supreme Court Alert | Appellate Update for May 23, 2025

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Decisions from May 23, 2025 - The Alabama Supreme Court issued its weekly release list on Friday, May 23. The opinions of interest to the Alabama business community include the following...more

Fisher Phillips

SCOTUS Says Workers Can Sue State Over Post-COVID Unemployment Benefits Processing Times: Key Takeaways for Employers

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The Supreme Court recently issued a decision that raises big implications for workplace claims brought under state law. Alabama residents who applied for unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic challenged the way...more

Burr & Forman

COVID Immunity Upheld to Protect Health Care Providers

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On October 4, 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court issued an opinion confirming and upholding the validity of not only the Governor’s Executive Order of May 8, 2020, providing immunity from negligence claims during the COVID-19...more

Butler Snow LLP

Alabama Enacts Legislation That Restricts COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

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Alabama has joined an ever-increasing number of states that have passed laws aimed at countering the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Alabama Senate Bill 9 restricts Alabama employers from requiring COVID-19...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

US Regional Employment 2021: Alabama | Insights & Events

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Law and Practice Chambers - The 2020 Chambers US Regional Employment Guide features guidance on employment law across 14 states and includes a unique state comparison tool for readers. The guide provides expert legal...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Up Next: Does Congress Have Constitutional Authority to Regulate Evictions and Foreclosures?

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Stay Tuned for the Coming Ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - The Supreme Court of the United States effectively ruled on August 26, 2021 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Alabama Governor Signs Law Harmonizing Tests for Employee vs. Independent Contractor Status

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We have previously written about the growing complications of employee vs. independent contractor classification in the wake of unemployment assistance in the pandemic era, not only for out-of-work employees but, for the...more

Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

Alabama Limits COVID-19 Liability

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On February 12, 2021, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law Act No. 2021-4, which provides a partial shield from liability related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the Act is to encourage Alabama businesses to...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility Updates for Surrounding Counties and States

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Please remember: each state has the flexibility to tailor recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for prioritizing vaccination....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

ADOR Affirms Deductibility of PPP Loan-Related Expenses but Unanswered Conformity Questions Remain

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The Alabama Department of Revenue issued helpful guidance on January 7, following its December 18, 2020 guidance implementing Governor Ivey’s landmark Supplemental Emergency Proclamation. The new guidance affirms the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

COVID-19 and Unprecedented Litigation Insights, Issue 26, October 2020

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This 26th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees us returning to now-familiar topics involving liability protection for businesses, wrongful death lawsuits (particularly those...more

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Alabama Issues Statewide Stay-at-Home

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The April 3 State Health Officer order combines the state’s definition of essential activities with the federal definition of essential workforce. Alabama mandates residents stay home except for defined “essential...more

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