Panel Affirms Dismissal Of COVID Death Suit Against Care Home, Cites Immunity Law

(October 11, 2022, 9:13 AM EDT) -- ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A New York appellate court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a wrongful death suit filed against a nursing home by the administrator of a woman who died there from COVID-19, finding that the lower court properly considered the New York state law granting immunity to health care providers for treatment of COVID-19 that was in effect when the decedent died....