Friday, May 29, 2020

29 May 2020: Other States Copy and Paste NY Nursing Home Immunity Policy

States Are Copying and Pasting Immunity Laws for Nursing Home Executives

This article is not directly about New York but discusses the pay-for-play politics the nursing home industry used to secure its "get out of jail" pass from Governor Cuomo as the coronavirus epidemic raged in New York, where New York's law exempting nursing homes from lawsuits for fatally exposing residents to the viral infection has become the template for similar laws in other states. Corruption, it seems, spreads like a virus.