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Special Edition
October 10, 2022
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Special Alert: New York Appellate Court Unanimously Rejects Retroactive Application of Repeal of Covid-Immunity Statute Protecting Healthcare Providers.
In an important and precedential decision released on October 7, 2022, New York’s Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department, unanimously held that the statute repealing New York’s Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act (EDTPA), which granted healthcare providers, including individual workers as well as facilities and their executives and administrators, immunity from civil and criminal liability for any injury or death alleged to have been sustained during the Covid-19 pandemic, is to be given prospective, rather than retroactive, effect.
Congratulations to the Hurwitz Fine nursing home litigation and appellate advocacy team of Liz Midgley, Beth Adymy, and Todd Bushway, who successfully argued in Ruth v Elderwood at Amherst that the text of the repeal statute itself, and the legal principles governing statutory interpretation, could only lead to the conclusion that the repeal took effect starting on the date the statute was enacted, and did not negate retroactively the previous time period that immunity was in place. This decision is a major victory for health care providers and brings a sense of clarity to an issue impacting hundreds, if not thousands, of pending or potential claims across New York State.
For more detailed analysis of this important decision, click here.
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