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Senate combines COVID-19 liability shield measures

[caption id="attachment 367183" align="alignleft" width="150"] Sen. Jeff Brandes[/caption] The Senate Rules Committee has approved a universal COVID-19 liability shield — after combining a measure to protect businesses, schools, and religious institutions with another for doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers. The committee voted 10-5 on March 11 to approve SB72 by Judiciary Chair Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg. Brandes told the committee that combining the measures would give the Senate a stronger bargaining position with the House, which has already approved a business-protection bill, HB-7, by Rep. Lawrence McClure, R-Plant City. “I think it’s best to have the business community and the health-care community rowing together,” Brandes said. “In this process, it’s easier to defend one fortress than it is to defend two.” SB 72 would establish, among other things, a pre-suit process that ....

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