3rd Circuit Affirms Remand Order In COVID Death Suit Against Decedent’s Employer

(September 28, 2023, 1:31 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 27 affirmed a lower court’s order granting an estate administrator’s motion to remand to state court a wrongful death and negligence suit filed against a nursing home after the decedent’s death from COVID-19, which she purportedly contracted while employed there, finding in part that remand was correct because the suit does not allege willful misconduct under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act....