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Federal Stimulus Package Update: Unemployment Assistance for Employers and Employees
March 26, 2020 By Anne E. Baggott On March 24, 2020, the U.S. Senate passed a $2 trillion stimulus package in response to the widespread economic impacts from COVID-19. If passed by the House of Representatives, which is expected within days, employers facing...
Be Careful What You Ask for – Especially in Arbitration
March 16, 2020 By Carol Z. Smith The only thing worse than telling your client that it lost the case is telling your client that it also has to pay the opposing party’s attorney’s fees. This is especially true when there was no contract or statute providing for an...
Emergency Paid Leave Law for Employers Effective April 1, 2020
March 19, 2020 By Anne Baggott Federal legislation passed March 18, 2020, called the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), impacts all employers with fewer than 500 employees. The legislation leaves many questions unanswered. The U.S. Department of Labor...
Insurance Law Alert: Duty to Defend Examined
March 18, 2020 By Kent Bevan An insurance case, American Family Mutual Insurance Company v. Robert M. Sharon, examines the definition of “occurrence” and various policy exclusions raised by American Family. The plaintiff and homeowner, Robert Sharon, sued the sellers,...
Firm Announcement – COVID-19
To our clients, colleagues, vendors and friends, Dysart Taylor has made the decision to temporarily change the manner in which we will deliver legal services and conduct business. Our physical offices will close to normal activity effective Wednesday, March 18, at...
Anne Baggott Presents on Employment Hot Topics at USLAW Conference
March 10, 2020 Dysart Taylor is pleased to announce shareholder/director Anne Baggott was a featured speaker at USLAW NETWORK’s annual Transportation and Logistics Exchange on Feb. 27 in New Orleans. During the conference, Baggott served on the panel, “Data Privacy...
Tips for Employers Responding to Novel Coronavirus
March 5, 2020 By: Anne Baggott The outbreak of a novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the World Health Organization’s name for the virus’ associated respiratory disease, is presenting a multitude of challenges for employers. Businesses in many industries are...
Lee Brumitt Elected to Kansas City Jazz Orchestra’s Board of Directors
February 25, 2020 Dysart Taylor is pleased to announce that shareholder/director Lee Brumitt has been elected to The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra’s Board of Directors. The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is one of the nation’s preeminent jazz ensembles, playing big band jazz...
Technicalities and Tautologies: Interpreting Construction Statutes in Kansas
February 17, 2020 By Lee Brumitt We’ve all heard it: “They got out on a technicality.” A recent case out of the Kansas Court of Appeals reminds us that what may look like a technicality is, in fact, a court properly applying the plain language of a statute, as enacted...
Insurance Law: Analyzing Collapse
February 11, 2020 By Kent Bevan In Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Company et al. v. Interstate Underground Warehouse, Interstate operated an underground storage facility in a cave that formerly housed a limestone mine near Kansas City, Missouri. Interstate...
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