Judge: Emergency Order Doesn’t Grant Care Home Immunity In COVID Death Suit

Mealey's (August 22, 2022, 1:04 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge on Aug. 18 addressed “an issue of first impression,” denying a nursing home’s motion to dismiss a negligence and wrongful death suit against it filed by the executrix of the estate of a woman who died there from COVID-19, finding that the remaining entities in the suit are not individuals pursuant to the Pennsylvania governor’s proclamation of disaster emergency that “immunizes only individuals, not entities.”...