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Nov 6, 2024 | 
lancasterfarming.com | Nicole Cook
This spring, the Maryland General Assembly passed a new law, Senate Bill 452 (SB 452), limiting how certain “recreational facilities” can protect themselves from liability for injuries caused by their negligence or wrongful acts.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Siran M. Koroukian |Nicole Cook |Suparna M. Navale
Objective To compare morbidity burden captured from multimorbidity indices and aggregated measures of clinically meaningful categories captured in primary care community-based health center (CBHC) patients. Data Sources and Study Setting Electronic health records of patients seen in 2019 in OCHIN's national network of CBHCs serving patients in rural and underserved communities.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
americanfarm.com | Nicole Cook
(Editor’s note: Nicole Cook is an environmental and agricultural faculty legal specialist with the University of Maryland Agriculture Law Education Initiative. This column should not be interpreted as legal or financial advice for the reader.)Understanding whether you have employees, volunteers, contractors, interns or apprentices working on your farm is vital to managing your farm’s risk.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
lancasterfarming.com | Nicole Cook
Understanding whether you have employees, volunteers, contractors, interns or apprentices working on your farm is vital to managing your farm’s risk. Farmers who mistakenly identify workers can wind up violating state and federal requirements for things like minimum wage, workers’ compensation, payroll taxes and unemployment insurance. Noncompliance with employment laws can carry significant financial penalties. Employment laws focus on the facts of a situation, not titles given to workers.
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May 24, 2024 | 
americanfarm.com | Nicole Cook
(Editor’s note: Nicole Cook is an environmental and agricultural faculty legal specialist at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
americanfarm.com | Nicole Cook
(Editor’s note: By Nicole Cook is an Environmental and Agricultural Faculty Legal Specialist at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.) It’s chilly, which means we are all thinking about the joys of spring: warm breezes, flowers blooming, and — if you’re thinking about raising honey bees — shopping for your “nuc!” Honey bees are vital to the health of Maryland’s agricultural industry, and raising honeybees for harvesting honey and beeswax as well as for pollinating crops is an additional...
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
histalk2.com | Nicole Cook
December 27, 2023 Readers Write No Comments Trauma ThoughtsBy Nicole Cook, APRNNicole Cook, APRN, MSN is a trauma clinical nurse specialist with WakeMed of Raleigh, NC and a clinical advisor for TraumaCare.AI.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
lancasterfarming.com | Nicole Cook
The leaves are falling, which means it’s the time of year when we are sharing the road with harvesting equipment. Hopefully everyone is being careful out there, but what if a farm worker does have an accident while driving a piece of farm equipment and injures someone or damages something? Who could be held liable? Sounds like it’s a good time to talk about negligent entrustment.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
lancasterfarming.com | Nicole Cook
President Joe Biden signed into law the Food Donation Improvement Act on Jan. 5. Farmers and gleaners have been protected from civil and criminal liability since 1996 under the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act, when they donate food to nonprofits that distribute the food to people in need. But they were not covered if they wanted to donate food to people directly. Also, farmers were not covered unless they donated the food for free.
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May 9, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | Nicole Cook
This article is not a substitute for legal advice. See here for the site’s reposting policy. The USDA recently announced a change to the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) that makes NAP more accessible to underserved producers.
