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Wednesday, February 24, 2021 The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently added government contractors to the list of entities eligible for immunity from liability under the Secretary’s March 17, 2020, Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (“PREP Act”) declaration.  The PREP Act protects individuals and companies from liability for death or other tort-like harm in connection with the pandemic response, except for cases involving “willful misconduct.”  Under the recent amendment, government contractors acting with authorization f...

Published February 9, 2021, 6:40 PM The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has issued an advisory warning banks and non-banks to be alert and detect clients or customers that are engaged in illegal online gambling and to report these activities to the proper government agencies including the central bank. BSP memo (Circular Letter No. CL-2021-012) reminded all BSP-supervised financial institutions (BSFIs) to transact only with licensed and registered online gambling operations and for all banks to have sound risk management practices. BSP Deputy Governor Chuchi G. Fonacier, who signed the circ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 28, 2021, Norris Cochran, the acting secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), amended the Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19 (PREP Act Declaration) in order to address the need to expand the pool of COVID-19 vaccinators to increase access to COVID-19 vaccinations. As background, the PREP Act (42 U.S.C. § 247d-6d) authorizes the secretary of HHS to issue a declaration to immunize certain individuals — including �...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Back in March, we wrote about how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had extended the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act to grant immunity to “Covered Persons” providing “Covered Countermeasures” against COVID-19.  The Office of the General Counsel for HHS issued an omnibus advisory opinion on April 14 that addressed common questions and concerns about the scope of PREP Act immunity, as discussed in our April update.  Last month, we described how courts across the country have interprete...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 3, 2020, the federal government took a significant step to reduce barriers to healthcare practitioners’ ability to provide COVID-19-related telehealth services across state lines by amending its previous declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act). The PREP Act authorizes the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue a PREP Act declaration in response to a public health emergency. A PREP Act declaration provides immunity from tort liability claims ...