Client Alerts & Publications
Reporting Incidents of Work-Related COVID-19 Fatalities and Hospitalizations
Authors: Aaron C. Schlesinger,
Published Date: November 13, 2020
On September 30, 2020, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued new regulatory guidance to clarify employer reporting requirements of COVID-19 related work incidents that lead to either an employee fatality or hospitalization. The reporting requirement for fatalities from a work-related COVID-19 infection is triggered when an employee dies within 30 days of being exposed to COVID-19 while at [...] Read More
Subcontractor Failure to Pay Employee Wages Could Fall on General Contractors
Authors: Michael C. Zisa,
Published Date: November 10, 2020
Michael C. Zisa, Chair of Peckar & Abramson's Surety and Construction Related Insurance Defense practice, has written "Subcontractor Failure to Pay Employee Wages Could Fall on General Contractors," an article for Construction Executive. The article discusses how general contractors must realize the risk of being held liable for a subcontractor’s failure to pay timely and proper wages to their employees [...] Read More
Hunker Down and Don’t Get Burned
Authors: Angela A.L. Connor,
Published Date: November 3, 2020
This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. This year has been one for the record books, to say the least. Not only has the pandemic disrupted businesses around the globe and certain construction projects, but we have seen a record-breaking year for wildfires throughout the United States and the hurricanes in the Atlantic and Gulf [...] Read More
Essential Employees Who Contract COVID-19 May Be Entitled to Workers’ Compensation Benefits: What New Jersey Employers Need to Know
Authors: Aaron C. Schlesinger,
Published Date: October 20, 2020
New Jersey employers make note: A recently enacted amendment to the New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Act entitles “essential employees”—including construction and many other types of private sector workers—who contract COVID-19 to the presumption that their illness is work-related. Significantly, this amendment is retroactive to March 9, 2020, the date of the initial pandemic state of emergency declaration in New Jersey. [...] Read More
How Will Today’s Pandemic Impact Tomorrow’s Construction Contracts?
Published Date: October 20, 2020
This article was written for the ConsensusDocs newsletter and first appeared here. The emergence of COVID-19 has created a new set of challenges in the already complex world of negotiating construction contracts. In the pre-COVID-19 era, general contractors, construction managers and those negotiating on their behalf, needed to balance a variety of fairly well-established legal risks and exposures and commercial [...] Read More
