Author: The Law Office of Eric R. Brown
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What To Know About Pandemic Assistance before Filing Your 2020 Taxes
We are just about a month into the Biden administration and still waiting on a COVID stimulus plan that, hopefully, will be the last stimulus we need before we emerge from the pandemic back to a more normal economy. In the meantime, many of us are getting ready to file income taxes for a year…
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“An Act Concerning Police Accountability”
Last summer, in response to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Connecticut General Assembly took action by passing Public Act 20-1 “An Act Concerning Police Accountability.” Since its passage, police officers in the state have raised real and legitimate concerns about the impacts the new law will have on them personally and upon…
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What HIPAA Actually Means For You
I get calls occasionally from folks who insist on telling me how their HIPAA rights have been violated. By the way, its HIPAA with two “a’s” not two “p’s.” HIPAA stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. It was passed by Congress in 1996. It has thereafter caused pain and suffering for millions…
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How To rebuild Ourselves After 2020
Remember back in those heady days of December when we believed that 2021 would arrive with promise, cleanse us from the stink of 2020, and make us vital again? We were so naïve. What I have realized about 2021is that 2020 was a devastation. I’ll paint you a picture. You know how when a tornado…
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The Insurrection at the CApitol
Last Wednesday was, as predicted, wild. For those of you who have ever been to the Capitol, the idea that a mob could assault it and overrun it never really seemed possible; however, there it was in living color on the screens we were glued to last Wednesday afternoon. So what will be the fallout? …
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My Hopes for 2021
Yesterday I was driving in my car when it suddenly hit me that when midnight strikes on New Year’s Eve, things are not suddenly going to go back to normal. When Joe Biden takes the oath of office in a little less than three weeks, we will not be emancipated from our seasons of despair…
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Connecticut’s New Paid Family Medical Leave Act
2021 is going to bring some big changes to employment in Connecticut. The biggest, which you probably heard about at some point, is the beginning of the paid family medical leave act. Under the new law, all employers in the state, regardless of size, will have to begin contributing to a state fund that will…
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The Demands on Police OFficers Surpass Our Day-To-Day Lives
I don’t consider myself an apologist for police officers. I have represented police unions for almost 25 years. They have put food on my table and my kids through school during my career, so I can acknowledge that I may have a bias. But in my 25 years, I have seen police in their true…
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To Mandate, or Not To Mandate?
There was more good news on the COVID front last week. It looks like vaccine distribution is going to start in the United States before the New Year, and the high-priority candidates will start receiving their inoculations. There is hope that by summer most of the American population will be immunized and that, finally, we…
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This Year, Thank Your Employees Without A Typical Office Party
Now that we have finished off the last of the turkey leftovers, we are fully in the holiday season. This one is not going to look like others. Next year we’ll be back in form, though. But for now, like we have done all year, we’ll have to adjust. I saw a vodka ad…
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