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Remote Care: Helping Families with Telehealth

In today's world, people across the country are turning to telehealth to get medical attention for themselves and their families.

Suzanne Haslam

Keeping Employees Engaged, Productive, and Healthy During COVID-19

How Woodruff Sawyer embraced COVID-19 challenges and developed new programs and benefits to keep employees focused, productive, and healthy.

AB 685: COVID-19 Potential Exposure Reporting and OSHA Citation Presumption

Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill (AB) 685, which sets new requirements for employers to notify their employees and their unions about a potential COVID-19 exposure in the workplace.

Brace for Impact: Four Types of Employment Claims After COVID-19

Employers need to prepare for the types of employments claims they will deal with as coronavirus restrictions are lifted and businesses resume.

How to Approach Property Insurance Claims Related to COVID-19, Protests, and Other Perils

When a business is impacted by an unexpected event like COVID-19, fire, protest, theft, vandalism, or another peril, people are concerned about how their insurance policies will respond.

Auto Liability Insurance Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic is changing our driving habits. What do these changes mean for your automobile liability insurance?

Coronavirus Impact: Business Risk and Insurance for Healthcare Providers

For the healthcare industry, insurance and "what's covered," which seemed clear at the onset of this pandemic, are no longer clear.

Employment Practices Liability: Preparing for COVID-19 Employment Claims

Due to COVID-19 employers should anticipate a wave of employment-related claims and take proactive measures now in order to mitigate their company’s potential Employment Practices Liability (EPL) exposure.

Compliance Alert: Carrier Premium Credits and ERISA Fiduciary Obligations

Utilization of group medical and dental insurance benefits is down so some carriers notified employers that they will be issued premium credits. This Compliance Alert offers background on these issues as well has how employers should treat these premium credits.

A New Workplace Hazard: Heat Illness Due to Coronavirus PPE and Regulations

As companies reopen, businesses will face complicated consequences of the federal and local standards for minimizing the coronavirus. Some employees may find wearing masks difficult as summer temperatures rise.

Eased Coronavirus Restrictions: HR Strategies and Legal Advice for Reopening Your Workplace

To answer many of the HR and legal questions related to re-opening your business, we asked four of our experts at Woodruff Sawyer for their advice in our recent webinar, on topics including compliance and issues of legality.

Compliance Alert: IRS Relaxes Election Change, Other Rules for Cafeteria Plans and FSAs

The IRS has provided guidance and relief for employees, which, among other things, extend the claims period for health flexible spending arrangements (health FSAs) and dependent care assistance programs (DCAPs) and allow employees to make mid-year changes.

An Employer’s Return to Work Toolkit: The “New Normal” After COVID-19

The impact of COVID-19 on workplaces has been far-reaching. Employers need to prepare for the "new normal" once such orders are lifted and the country begins to reopen. We at Woodruff Sawyer have put together this toolkit that will help employers build their own action plan for employees to return to work.