A lawsuit alleging a California nursing home’s negligence caused a resident’s death from Covid-19 must proceed in state court because a federal law governing public health-care emergencies doesn’t give a federal court power over it, the federal court said.
Emma Martin sued Serrano Post Acute LLC in California state court. She alleged the nursing home failed to take proper precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus and failed to properly treat residents’ infections, leading to her father’s death.
The nursing home removed the case to federal court, but the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California sent it ...
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