This is a problem that Congress should have handled long before now, but since they didn’t, it’s showing up at the state level. The issue at hand is whether or not a business – in this case a nursing home in New York State – can be sued because someone died of COVID on the premises or contracted it there and then passed on elsewhere. The plaintiff in the case is Vivian Zayas, whose mother died of COVID last summer after staying for a time at the Our Lady of Consolation nursing home. Standing against her are multiple hospital industry...
