Wednesday, January 6, 2021
Peggy L. Holmes left this earth on Dec. 29, 2020, following nearly 5 years battling cancer. Her sense of humor remained in full force right up until the end as she flirted with the male nurses and harassed her daughters - threatening to haunt each of them if they got out of line. Her laughter filled the hospital and delighted all who visited her … she always wanted to leave this earth with laughter.
Peggy was born in New Madrid, Missouri in 1942. She often referred to herself as a Mississippi River Rat. She lived in Tennessee and Colorado with her family and moved to Texas after high school. She married the love of her life, Jim Holmes, in 1969 and they settled in San Marcos in 1984. Peggy loved the fashion industry and spent many years in retail management. She organized fashion shows and had her own business as a display designer - traveling all over Texas and Oklahoma to work. Her family teased her that is was amazing companies actually paid her to d
Businesses prepared for a flood of COVID-related lawsuits that (so far) has been a trickle
Bloomberg
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce seal is displayed during restoration at the headquarters in Washington, D.C., on March 17.
A partner at Cleveland law firm Thompson Hine is quoted in this Wall Street Journal article about a welcome development or more precisely, a non-development for businesses: a feared flood of COVID-19-related lawsuits has not happened.
From the article:
Nine months into the pandemic, an expected torrent of virus-related personal-injury lawsuits hasn t materialized, as plaintiff attorneys find it more challenging than anticipated to hold a business responsible for spreading COVID-19.
By J. Dennis Robinson
It’s a New Year’s tradition for journalists like me to look back on the key events of the previous year, but have a heart. Who wants to rehash that hot mess? And as to predicting what might be coming in 2021, well, we all know how unreliable fortune tellers are. So let’s wind the clock back a safe distance, once again, and review what was about to happen one, two, three and four centuries in the past.
400 years ago
With the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Hampshire now only two years away, I bet 95% of Portsmouth residents don’t have an inkling of how it all began. No judgment here. I’m halfway into writing a book on the topic and, trust me, it starts out confusing and goes downhill. We know precious little about Amias, David and John Thompson (Thomson) who settled at Little Harbor in 1623, and much of what we’ve been telling ourselves for centuries is probably wrong.
Dec. 24, 2020 7:00 am ET
Nine months into the pandemic, an expected torrent of virus-related personal-injury lawsuits hasnât materialized, as plaintiff attorneys find it more challenging than anticipated to hold a business responsible for spreading Covid-19.
Negligence lawsuits brought against businesses by infected customers are nearly nonexistent in state and federal courts, apart from a cluster of lawsuits targeting cruise lines. Even more rare are cases against smaller retailers and businesses, which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce had said were particularly vulnerable to financially crippling claims.
Existing laws have funneled most employee claims against employers into workersâ compensation systems, which donât typically award the large sums sought by trial attorneys who can sue for pain and suffering in the courts.
Character Counts
Posted on: December 18, 2020; Updated on: December 18, 2020
It’s been a year. Full stop.
But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t plenty to celebrate, recognize and honor at the University of South Carolina in 2020. There was. And there’s even more to look forward to in 2021.
Whether we were developing innovative instruction strategies and aggressive testing protocols to confront the coronavirus, whether we were making our voices heard on social justice issues or proving our mettle, yet again, on campus and in the community, UofSC rose to each and every challenge this year and raised the bar for the year to