Since the outbreak of the corona pandemic, many companies around the world have been closed or have been forced to cut production dramatically. In the UK in particular, the question has arisen as to whether ...

The hotel sector is one of the hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis in Spain. The temporary shutdown of hotels and the consequent collapse of hotel occupancy during the lockdown have given way to a scenario with ...

International law firm Bird & Bird today launches a COVID-19 Business Interruption insurance tracker which lets you see at a glance how regulators and courts in a variety of jurisdictions view insurance policies ...

In June 2020 the House of Commons Transport Committee published a report on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the aviation sector and made recommendations to the Government to address its findings. In ...

On Tuesday 15 September, the English High Court published its highly anticipated judgment in the FCA's expedited business interruption insurance test case, The Financial Conduct Authority v Arch and Others [2020] ...

HMRC have revealed that up to £3.5 billion in Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) payments may have been claimed fraudulently or as a result of error, and confirmed that enquiries have been opened into 27,000 ...

As the development of vaccines against COVID-19 is progressing, the question becomes urgent who will be liable if a vaccine is marketed and will cause unexpected adverse effects as a result of the requested speed ...

The Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal (College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven, “CBb”) reduced a fine imposed by the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets (“ACM”) on an unidentified undertaking with ...

Following the ECJ ruling of 14 May 2019 on workers’ fundamental right to limitation of working hours and employers' obligation to ensure proper recording and measurement of working time (case C-55/18), there has ...

A new three-party agreement between the Unions’ Central Organisation, the Employers’ Central Organisation and the Danish Government aims to provide for a better chance of employment for the remainder of 2020 for ...