October 16, 2020
A Pittsburgh-area nursing home can't claim immunity from a housekeeper's COVID-19 wrongful-death suit because a federal law only gives health care providers protection for treatments and protective measures they use, not measures they were allegedly negligent in ignoring, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Friday.
September 10, 2020
A Pittsburgh-area nursing home wasn't acting directly under federal laws, regulations and directions when a housekeeper allegedly contracted COVID-19 at the facility and died, so her wrongful-death lawsuit should be sent back to state court, her family told a Pennsylvania federal court.