Health Care & Hospital Law
Apr. 1, 2020
Hospitals likely to face protective gear lawsuits, attorneys say
Harry Nelson, a Los Angeles partner at Nelson Hardiman, predicted courts will “absolutely see some of those claims asserted,” and health systems are “at serious risk if they didn’t adequately protect their staff.”
Health care workers are being called onto the front lines to treat COVID patients, but they say they’re not being provided the proper gear.
Doctors are reusing face masks. Nurses are making their own out of scarves and bandannas. In certain hospitals, they’re wearing trash bags as gowns.
Some have staged protests this week in multiples states — including California, New York and Illinois — demandi...
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