Insights

Many contracts contain a force majeure clause, typically buried within boilerplate language, which can excuse a party’s nonperformance if extraordinary events prevent the party from fulfilling contractual obligations...

For private sector companies responding to the public’s need for COVID-19 countermeasures...

Our nation is taking unprecedented steps to curb the spread of COVID-19. Stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders are taking a toll on businesses as they are forced into temporary closures...

Last week, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) establishing circumstances in which employers must provide employees with paid sick or family leave due to the COVID-19 virus...

As we embark on 2020, several changes to the Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure and Rules of General Practice take effect. These changes apply to all cases pending as of January 1, 2020...

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that an insurer may pose interrogatories to juries—i.e., ask the jury questions—in an underlying third-party action...