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In Loving Memory of Mary Sue Harris

With great sadness, we must announce the passing of our friend and longtime employee, Mary Sue Harris. Mary blessed us as an employee at Bugbee and Conkle for 47 years, working as a dedicated secretary and paralegal. Everyone at Bugbee and Conkle will miss her...

Comp Connection March 2024

The 3rd District Court Of Appeals Rejects COVID-19 Claim Since the COVID-19 pandemic ensued, employers have wondered whether there would be rash of compensable COVID-19 cases arising from employment. Because COVID-19 is a disease arising from the Sars-CoV-2 virus,...

Safety Sense February 2024

2024 CHANGES TO OSHA INJURY AND ILLNESS RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS What's Changing: Establishments with 100+ employees in certain designated industries are required to electronically submit information from their OSHA Forms 300 and 301 to OSHA once a year. OSHA will...

Comp Connection November 2023

Is This the End of Voluntary Abandonment in Ohio?   R.C.4123.56(F) was enacted and became effective September 15, 2020 and applies to claims arising on or after July 1, 2020. Prior to the amendment, voluntary abandonment of employment was an affirmative defense...

Safety Sense April 2023

This year's Safety & Health Day will be held on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at Owen's Community College - Center for the Performing Arts. Doors open at 7:30am with a full day of presentations on various workplace safety topics!  Attorney will be presenting with...

Comp Connection March 2023

  In State of Ohio ex rel. AutoZone Stores Inc. v. Indus. Comm., 10th Dist. No. 21AP-294, 2023-Ohio-633, decided on March 2, 2023 the Tenth District Court of Appeals interpreted R.C. 4123.56(F) which provides:  If an employee is unable to work or suffers a wage...

CMS Vaccine Mandate Reinstated for Majority of the United States

The flurry of vaccine mandate litigation continues. We recently wrote on a federal district court’s preliminary injunction blocking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) mandate across the country.  However, a recent subsequent decision by the Fifth Circuit reinstated the CMS vaccine mandate for the majority of the United States. In the opinion, the Fifth Circuit, per curiam, found…

Why the Uber Lawsuit Regarding the ADA Matters for Your Business

On November 10, 2021, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. (“Uber”) alleging violations of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”).  The lawsuit, filed in federal court in California, alleges that Uber violated the ADA by failing to modify its wait-time policy.  This lawsuit is one of the many ADA Title III lawsuits filed…

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