APRIL 10, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
While the pace of COVID-19-responsive regulatory action has slowed this past week, there was an increase in the number of states addressing and/or encouraging auto insurance discounts and/or premium relief to reflect exposure reductions generated by stay-at-home orders. Aside from that, states…
Liability and Patient Standards of Care in Response to COVID-19
Patient standards of care have always been a moving target, dependent on specialty, circumstances, and resources. Add in a global pandemic and this standard for the treatment of COVID-19 is in a constant state of flux. Novel issues have been elucidated, but with it, novel liability protections have…
IRS Extends Deadlines for Like-Kind Exchanges to July 15th amid COVID-19 Pandemic
April 10, 2020
by Craig R. Cockrell
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS has granted taxpayers an automatic extension for the deadlines imposed by section 1031 of the Tax Code for like-kind exchanges. In IRS Notice 2020-23, released on April 9, 2020, the IRS announced that any person performing a “Specified Time-Sensitive…
Distributed Generation: Kansas Supreme Court Addresses Challenge to Rate Design
Co-Author: Austin Reed The Kansas Supreme Court (“Court”) in an April 3rd Opinion addressed a challenge to a utility rate increase and rate design change. See In the Matter of the Joint Application of Westar Energy, Inc., No. 120,436, 2020 WL 1646814 (Kan. Apr. 3, 2020). A focus of the decision was…
COVID-19 - Arkansas Department of Health: Arkansas Oil Marketers Association Notes Release of Guidance for Retail Stores
The Arkansas Oil Marketers Association noted yesterday the release of Arkansas Department of Health (“DOH”) COVID-19 Guidance for Retail Stores (“Guidance”). The Guidance interprets a directive that was issued on April 5th in terms of its applicability to retail stores. Retail stores are directed…