{"id":818,"date":"2020-08-24T14:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=818"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T18:23:36","slug":"georgia-passes-bill-limiting-covid-19-related-liability-for-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/08\/24\/georgia-passes-bill-limiting-covid-19-related-liability-for-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Passes Bill Limiting COVID-19-Related Liability for Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although Georgia joined several other states in urging Congress to provide a liability shield on a national level, Georgia did not wait to protect its businesses. On August 5, 2020, Governor Brian Kemp signed the\u00a0<a title=\"Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/20192020\/195211.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act<\/a>, which took effect immediately. The act amends Georgia\u2019s tort claims law to provide new definitions, exceptions and a presumption against liability. The act provides a general shield against liability as long as the businesses did not act with gross negligence, willful and wanton misconduct, or reckless or intentional disregard. At first glance, the law appears focused on healthcare as it applies to any \u201chealthcare facility, healthcare provider, entity, or individual.\u201d However, the term \u201centity\u201d is defined very broadly to include most businesses.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/georgia_passes_bill_limiting_covid19_related_liability_businesses_0820.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Georgia joined several other states in urging Congress to provide a liability shield on a national level, Georgia did not wait to protect its businesses. On August 5, 2020, Governor Brian Kemp signed the\u00a0Georgia COVID-19 Pandemic Business Safety Act, which took effect immediately. The act amends Georgia\u2019s tort claims law to provide new definitions, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/08\/24\/georgia-passes-bill-limiting-covid-19-related-liability-for-businesses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Georgia Passes Bill Limiting COVID-19-Related Liability for Businesses&#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":[485,950,531],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-georgia","tag-georgia-covid-19-pandemic-business-safety-act","tag-liability"],"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","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=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}