Capital Corner
By Will Melofchik
Welcome to the latest installment of Capital Corner, a column that aims to update you on some of the issues that NCOIL is following. Below are issues that NCOIL will be discussing at the upcoming NCOIL “Summer” Meeting and throughout.
Things certainly have been interesting here at the NCOIL National Office since we returned from our last meeting in Charlotte this past March. Remarkably, although COVID forced the hotel to close for months immediately following our Spring Conference adjournment, not a single attendee contacted us with news that they had been diagnosed with the illness.
Not surprisingly, NCOIL became an all-COVID all-the-time organization for the next several weeks as issues arose as a result of the pandemic. We never lost sight though of the other, pressing matters of public policy which are unrelated to COVID-19, and our need to return to them, which we did as well beginning in mid-April. Accordingly, while issues such as business interruption insurance coverage and workers’ compensation presumption statutes may be the most obvious candidates for discussion in this column, below are three issues unrelated to COVID-19 that NCOIL will extensively discuss at our “Summer” Meeting and beyond.
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