{"id":220835,"date":"2021-04-07T07:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T04:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-repealing-nursing-home-covid-19-liability-protections-approved-by-cuomo\/"},"modified":"2021-04-07T07:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T04:24:21","slug":"bill-repealing-nursing-home-covid-19-liability-protections-approved-by-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-repealing-nursing-home-covid-19-liability-protections-approved-by-cuomo\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill repealing nursing home COVID-19 liability protections approved by Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bill repealing nursing home COVID-19 liability protections app<\/a>roved by Cuomo<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Governor Cuomo repealed a controversial law that shielded nursing homes and other essential businesses from coronavirus related lawsuits Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The measure<\/a> rolled back the \u201cEmergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act,\u201d which granted health care facilities and workers liability immunity from negligence suits, and comes as Cuomo\u2019s administration is under federal investigation for covering up some 9,000 COVID-19 related nursing home deaths last year.<\/p>\n

The scandal \u2014 exclusively revealed by The Post \u2014 weakened Cuomo politically and led to calls for him to resign as sexual harassment accusations against him swirled in the wake of the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we near the passage of this year\u2019s momentous budget, I am relieved to see corporate immunity, which was slipped into last year\u2019s budget, fully repealed,\u201d Bronx State Senator Alessandra Biaggi, one of the bill\u2019s sponsor said in a statement Tuesday night. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis blanket immunity prevented thousands of families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 from seeking legal recourse, and potentially incentivized nursing home executives to cut corners \u2014 endangering staff and residents.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Demonstrators gather beside a presentation depicting the number 15000 to denote estimated nursing home deaths before a rally decrying New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s handling of the previous years outbreak of COVID-19.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThe corporate immunity provision was a license to kill,\u201d the Democrat previously told The Post<\/p>\n

Queens Assemblyman Ron Kim also co-sponsored the bill. Kim \u2014 whose uncle died of the coronavirus in a nursing home \u2014 said Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, threatened to \u201cdestroy\u201d him, if he did not help the governor contain the damage of the death coverup. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019I can tell the whole world what a bad person you are and you will be finished,\u2019\u201d Kim said the governor told him in February.<\/p>\n

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Relatives of Elba Pabay hold a picture of her as people who\u2019ve lost loved ones due to Covid-19 while they were in New York nursing homes.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The law was passed despite opposition by the powerful Greater New York Hospital Association lobby.<\/p>\n

The measure is one of ten bills the Democrat-led Senate has spearheaded to bolster accountability and oversight of nursing homes and the health department in the wake of the scandal.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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