{"id":960,"date":"2021-01-11T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=960"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T22:35:59","slug":"florida-legislators-introduce-bills-that-would-impose-strict-prerequisites-to-bringing-covid-19-personal-injury-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/01\/11\/florida-legislators-introduce-bills-that-would-impose-strict-prerequisites-to-bringing-covid-19-personal-injury-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Legislators Introduce Bills That Would Impose Strict Prerequisites to Bringing COVID-19 Personal Injury Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 6, 2021, Florida legislators introduced a pair of bills\u2014<a title=\"HB 7: Civil Liability for Damages Relating to COVID-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2021\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H.B. 7<\/a>\u00a0in the Florida House and\u00a0<a title=\"SB 72: Civil Liability for Damages Relating to COVID-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2021\/72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S.B. 72<\/a>\u00a0in the Florida Senate\u2014intended to address civil liability for damages for personal injuries relating to COVID-19. (In a previous\u00a0<i><a title=\"Florida Industry Group Urges State to Limit Legal Liability for Florida Businesses\" href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/florida_industry_group_urges_state_limit_legal_liability_florida_businesses_1220.html\">Alert<\/a><\/i>, we discussed the Associated Industries of Florida\u2019s recommendation for the state to address legal liability.) As described below, the bills would impose strict pleading, filing and proof requirements on plaintiffs pursuing COVID-19-related actions; shield from liability defendants who attempted to comply with applicable health standards and guidelines; and establish a framework for courts to quickly dispose of spurious claims.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/florida_legislators_introduce_bills_impose_strict_prerequisites_bringing_covid19_personal_0121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 6, 2021, Florida legislators introduced a pair of bills\u2014H.B. 7\u00a0in the Florida House and\u00a0S.B. 72\u00a0in the Florida Senate\u2014intended to address civil liability for damages for personal injuries relating to COVID-19. (In a previous\u00a0Alert, we discussed the Associated Industries of Florida\u2019s recommendation for the state to address legal liability.) As described below, the bills &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2021\/01\/11\/florida-legislators-introduce-bills-that-would-impose-strict-prerequisites-to-bringing-covid-19-personal-injury-claims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Florida Legislators Introduce Bills That Would Impose Strict Prerequisites to Bringing COVID-19 Personal Injury Claims&#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],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-florida","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\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}