Woman Says PREP Act Does Not Preempt Suit Over Mother's COVID-19 Death

Mealey's (September 13, 2020, 12:50 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — A woman claiming that a short-term rehabilitation center and its CEO were negligent for failing to implement safety protocols instituted in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic and that those failures contributed to her mother's April 13 death from COVID-19 says in a reply brief filed Sept. 2 in federal court in South Carolina that her lawsuit should be remanded to state court because her claims are not completely preempted by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act (Tress Wright v. Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Columbia Inc., et al., No. 20-2636, D. S.C.)....