by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Likelihood of liability lawsuits in the age of COVID-19 Nearly a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, liability protections for health care providers remain unresolved at the federal level. Health care and business groups, including the HCLA and its member organizations,...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | Pennsylvania
SOURCE: Law360 The criticisms of the temporary and targeted COVID-19 liability protections contained in Pennsylvania’s H.B. 1737, vetoed by Gov. Tom Wolf on Nov. 30, are long on rhetoric and short on facts. Wolf erroneously claimed the bill was...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National
SOURCE: State of Reform Governor Doug Ducey today extended an executive order giving frontline health care workers protection from civil liability claims. This is the third time Ducey has renewed the “Good Samaritan” protections for health workers, having originally...
by PPN | Jan 29, 2021 | National
SOURCE: Medscape Even if patients and families brought COVID-19 cases to them, plaintiff attorneys say they are leery of taking them because judges and jurors who have lived through this pandemic and know the ordeals of healthcare providers are unlikely to be...
