Class Certification Sought In Suit Over Oversight In Pennsylvania Nursing Homes

Mealey's (May 18, 2020, 8:59 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The children of two Pennsylvania nursing home residents on May 13 moved for class certification in a federal suit alleging that the state Department of Health’s decision to cease inspecting long-term care facilities during the novel coronavirus pandemic has put residents at increased risk of infection and led to “apparent biomedical experimentation on residents under the guise of clinical trials” (Jodi Gill, et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Health, No. 20-cv-2038, E.D. Pa.)....