{"id":439,"date":"2020-04-16T17:14:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=439"},"modified":"2020-08-31T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:45:03","slug":"nursing-homes-in-florida-ask-governor-for-liability-immunity-protection-from-covid-19-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/16\/nursing-homes-in-florida-ask-governor-for-liability-immunity-protection-from-covid-19-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Homes in Florida Ask Governor for Liability Immunity Protection From COVID-19 Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an April 3, 2020 letter, Florida\u2019s largest advocacy group for long-term care providers, Florida Health Care Association, asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to extend sovereign immunity to heath care providers and health care facilities engaged in and responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.\u00a0 The letter requests liability immunity (both criminal and civil) for any harm or damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of an <em><strong>act or omission<\/strong><\/em> in the course of arranging for or providing health care services in accordance with COVID-19\u2019s emergency rule and state directives.\u00a0 Additionally, the letter requests immunity for the health care facility or health care professional if they are arranging for, or providing health care services, in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/brittanycwakim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brittany Wakim<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/2020\/04\/16\/florida-nursing-homes-ask-governor-for-liability-immunity-protection-from-covid-19-lawsuits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Products Liability Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an April 3, 2020 letter, Florida\u2019s largest advocacy group for long-term care providers, Florida Health Care Association, asked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to extend sovereign immunity to heath care providers and health care facilities engaged in and responding to the COVID-19 outbreak.\u00a0 The letter requests liability immunity (both criminal and civil) for any harm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/16\/nursing-homes-in-florida-ask-governor-for-liability-immunity-protection-from-covid-19-lawsuits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nursing Homes in Florida Ask Governor for Liability Immunity Protection From COVID-19 Lawsuits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[205,531,568,567],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-florida","tag-liability","tag-liability-immunity","tag-nursing-homes"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}