A Texas law that gives health-care providers immunity for certain actions taken during a pandemic is facing an early test in a federal lawsuit seeking damages for a nursing home resident’s Covid-19 death.
It’s one of several suits in which courts around the country are debating the scope of such state provisions and how broadly they should be applied. So far, the shields have been upheld.
Texas’ Pandemic Liability Protection Act was enacted nearly a year after Calvin Norman filed this wrongful death suit against the owner-operators of Skyline Nursing Center, where his mother Ella died in April 2020. ...
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