Justice: Care Home Immune, No Retroactive Repeal Of Statute In COVID Death Suit

(May 26, 2022, 3:41 PM EDT) -- STATEN ISLAND, NY — A New York state justice on May 18 ruled that the repeal of a New York law granting immunity to nursing homes for the treatment of residents related to COVID-19 was not retroactive and that a nursing home was “immune from liability,” granting the nursing home’s motion to dismiss a negligence and wrongful death suit filed against it related to the suspected COVID-19 death of one of its residents....