Coronavirus/COVID-19, Tolling

Lingering Effects of Covid-19 on New York Statutes of Limitations

Stark & Stark on 8/1/2025

The Covid-19 pandemic feels like a lifetime ago, yet its impact on the legal system remains very much alive. Beyond remote hearings, delayed trials, and new courthouse procedures, one of the most enduring consequences is how...more

The COVID Tolling Window for Personal Injury Cases Has Closed

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC on 11/9/2023

We have reached the end of the COVID tolling window for personal injury cases. Any personal injury complaints that accrued during the 228-day tolling period from March 20, 2020, through Nov. 3, 2020, that have not yet been...more

Massachusetts SJC Holds That COVID-19–Related Tolling Does Not Extend Time to File a Complaint at the MCAD

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/17/2023

On July 11, 2023, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) declined to extend its early COVID-19 emergency orders to the time limits established for filing a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against...more

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The End of the COVID Mandates and Outbreak Period Extensions

Alston & Bird on 4/21/2023

The National Emergency brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic may be at an end, but there are still administrative details to sort out. Our Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group provides in-depth analysis for how...more

Update: Big Headline, Small Impact: Legislation Ends COVID-19 National Emergency

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 4/13/2023

Important Update: Based on informal comments from the U.S. Department of Labor, it appears that the tolling of benefit plan deadlines will end on July 10, 2023, as described in our earlier blog on this subject,...more

First, Second and Third Departments All Hold That COVID Executive Orders Tolled NY’s Statutes of Limitations

Rivkin Radler LLP on 4/10/2023

Only weeks ago, the Appellate Division, Second Department issued its McLaughlin decision reaffirming Brash– another Second Department decision which we wrote about on August 4, 2021. As we discussed in our blurb, Brash was...more

Tolling No More: Preparing for the End of COVID-19 Emergency Declarations

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 3/8/2023

On January 30, President Biden announced his intention to end the COVID-19 National Emergency (NE) and Public Health Emergency (PHE) effective May 11, 2023. Both emergency declarations resulted in various forms of relief for...more

CEQA Challenge to Campus Town Project in Monterey County Was Untimely

Perkins Coie on 6/23/2022

The Court of Appeal held that a writ petition asserting potential CEQA violations concerning the Campus Town project, a significant development project in Monterey County, was untimely because it was filed after the fixed end...more

Effects of Former New York Gov. Cuomo’s Executive Orders on Statutes of Limitations

Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires &... on 3/3/2022

On March 7, 2020, then Governor Andrew A. Cuomo issued Executive Order No. 202, declaring a disaster emergency for the entire State of New York due to COVID-19. On March 20, 2020, Executive Order No. 202.8 was issued, which...more

New California Labor and Employment Laws for 2022

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/6/2022

The California Legislature has enacted several new laws that will impact the workplace in 2022. This Holland & Knight alert provides a brief summary of select employment laws that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, unless...more

COBRA Election and Payment Periods: Does One Year of “Tolling” Really Mean One Year?

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 10/8/2021

Remember the DOL/Treasury relief that tolled the COBRA election and payment deadlines for up to one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic (referred to below as “Tolling Relief”)? If you have been wondering whether, under that...more

Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies Breadth of COVID-19 Tolling Order

Epstein Becker & Green on 9/23/2021

Supreme Judicial Court Clarifies Breadth of COVID-19 Tolling Order - During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (“SJC”) entered an order tolling the statutes of limitations...more

For Whom the Limitations Period Tolls: The SJC Imposes 106 More Days of Potential Liability on Defendants

Sullivan & Worcester on 9/22/2021

In a decision dated September 3, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) solidified the broad reach of its emergency tolling orders. Through a series of emergency orders in the early months of the COVID-19...more

New York Tolls Legal Deadlines In Response to COVID-19

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP on 9/14/2021

One of the many lasting impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic is the lengthy tolling of statutes of limitations and legal deadlines. On March 20, 2020, Governor Cuomo issued Executive Order No. 202.8 to extend deadlines “for the...more

COVID Emergency Measures Aiding Florida Developers, Permit Holders End Soon

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/13/2021

Florida Executive Order 21-94, which extended the state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, expired on June 26, 2021. Affected developers and permit holders must act soon to take advantage of their tolling and...more

Update: Gov. Cuomo’s Executive Orders Tolled NY’s Limitation Periods

Rivkin Radler LLP on 8/4/2021

In April 2020, in an article entitled, “Coronavirus and Statutes of Limitations in New York: A Lingering Effect?”, we discussed Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order 202.8, issued in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. We...more

The Second Department Weighs in on Tolling vs. Suspension of Statutes of Limitation Pursuant to Governor Cuomo’s COVID-era...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/7/2021

In “Governor Cuomo’s “Tolling” of New York Statutes of Limitation Has Ended, But What Did It Accomplish?”, we examined the debate surrounding whether Governor Cuomo’s Executive Order No. 202.8 and subsequent orders up to and...more

Governor Cuomo’s “Tolling” of New York Statutes of Limitation Has Ended, But What Did It Accomplish?

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/4/2021

Statutes of limitation were “tolled” in New York by Executive Order No. 202.8, issued by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo on March 20, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the next six-and-a-half months, that toll was...more

Are New York Executive Orders a True Tolling of Statute of Limitations or Merely a Grace Period?

Holland & Knight LLP on 10/28/2020

Every state requires a lawsuit to be filed within a given time — i.e., before the statute of limitations expires. In New York, a breach of contract action must be filed within six years of the alleged "breach." For example,...more

Updated New York Order Maintains Tolling - September 2020

A&O Shearman on 9/11/2020

In connection with the continued efforts of New York State to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent order updated the emergency measures in place impacting pending and potential litigation in New York and possibly...more

California Judicial Council Votes to Sunset Emergency Amendments to Rules of Court that Prevent Evictions and Judicial...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 8/19/2020

As noted in prior updates, on April 6, 2020, the California Judicial Council issued emergency amendments to the California Rules of Court that, among other things, except as necessary to protect public health and safety...more

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