9th Circuit Panel Denies Care Facility’s Rehearing Request In COVID Death Suit

Mealey's (April 21, 2022, 1:34 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 18 denied a joint request from a long-term care facility, its owner and its staff physician for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc after affirming a district court’s order remanding to state court a wrongful death suit filed by the family of a man who died in the facility after contracting COVID-19....