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Coronavirus Tax Assistance:

Under the COVID-19 stimulus package, formally titled the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), which the President signed into law on March 27, 2020, taxpayers who have been unable to carry back net operating losses originating after 2017 based on recent changes to the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) have been provided substantial relief.

The Families First Coronavirus Response Act

On March 18, 2020, in response to the international pandemic caused by the novel Coronavirus, the President signed the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act” (“the Act”).

Contracts in the Time of Coronavirus:

Part III of this series explores excuses for nonperformance which may be available to parties under the Uniform Commercial Code Article 2 (“UCC”) for contracts concerning the sale of goods.

Coronavirus Stories We’re Following

Even as expanding corridors of the world are sheltering in place to “flatten the curve” of the Coronavirus, many sectors of the international economy continue to operate, albeit differently than ever before.

Florida Business Litigation Update:

On March 25, 2020, the Third DCA issued its panel decision in Island Travel & Tours, Ltd. v. MYR Indep., Inc., 3D16-1364, 2020 WL 1451990, at *3 (Fla. 3d DCA Mar. 25, 2020), which reaffirmed application of the independent tort doctrine to bar common law tort claims in business litigation cases where there is already a contract between the parties.

Contracts in the Time of Coronavirus:

When applying both doctrines, courts look to whether the contingency at issue was foreseeable at the time the parties entered into the contract.

Do I have Coronavirus Insurance Coverage?

The spread of COVID-19 threatens to devastate South Florida’s economy, which relies heavily on its hospitality industry. 

Contracts in the Time of Coronavirus:

As the world braces for a possible prolonged battle with the coronavirus pandemic, the effects will most assuredly have wide-ranging impacts on business and contractual relationships.

Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Appoints Judge Bowman as Circuit’s First Appellate Division Chair

On January 29, 2020, the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit announced a restructuring of its Appellate Division.

Ex-Boca school counselor who pushed fentanyl spray for Insys is heading to prison

Alec Burlakoff was the sales mastermind of a conspiracy to pay doctors “speakers fees” so they would prescribe Subsys in higher amounts and greater doses.