What You Need to Know About the Latest COVID-19 Activity Affecting Nursing Homes and LTC Facilities
Part I: Status of COVID-19 Lawsuits and Class Actions
Olga Kats-Chalfant, Esq.
Divisional Claim Manager – Princeton
MedPro (Princeton, NJ)
Robin Khanal
Partner
Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A (Orlando, FL)
Malinda A. Miller
Partner
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP (Newark, NJ)
- Analyzing trends in recent lawsuits and class actions regarding COVID-19 related negligence in nursing homes
- Surveying activity within the various states as well as AG activity
- Assessing the status of expanded immunity protections for the LTC industry under the federal CARES Act and state immunity statutes and executive orders
- Understanding who and what activities are protected by these state statutes
- Reviewing what states that do not have immunity are doing
- Examining the fallout from public outcry against such immunity statutes