Welcome the politicking im larry king should businesses be protected from coronavirus related lawsuits Republican Leaders have said any future economic aid package will pass or fail on this issue will start the conversation with former republican congressman Bill Mccollum of florida he also serves as the attorney general of that state and he joins us from florida all right bill should businesses be protected from future lawsuits well i think most of them should be very because the fact is that we are trying to come out or will be trying to come out of a severe Economic Situation in which Small Businesses particularly are vulnerable d already and i have litigation going on about connections to the virus itself particularly those that may be charged with some aspect of the actual disease or some precipitation or aggravation and it strikes me that that thats wrong the same thing is true with the doctors high. Spittles and all the care givers them out there giving care its not easy in norm
The doctors we and we didnt know how bad the virus was going to be so now we have a lot more we dont have everything we want we dont have all the to discus we dont have all the masks although theyre being produced very rapidly right now but we have enough to be able to save a lot of lives and and handle the situation of people kamil larry this country was based on risk we all took risks as americans years ago our ancestors anyway did when the ohio territory or through us territory was settled incredible number of plagues of diseases if you read back on history that our forefathers withstood lot of people died but a lot of people lived they didnt shut down their businesses they went on they accepted some of that as a reality of life so in things true of war we dont like casualties none of us do but in a way were in a war its not the same exactly but we are so if we can minimize them we save every life we can we take every step we possibly can do which were going to the process of doing
Affected badly yes but we have to get our country open art is that putting economics over health. Actually i think theyre both go together in this case the real reason we went to the shutdown and most of the places around the country had to go there was because we did not have the supplies the equipment the hospitals the doctors we and we didnt know how bad the virus was going to be so now we have a lot more we dont have everything we want we dont have all the to discus we dont have all the masks although theyre being produced very rapidly right now but we have enough to be able to save a lives and and handle the situation of people kamil larry this country was based on risk we all took risks as americans years ago our ancestors anyway did when the ohio territory or through us territory was settled incredible number of plagues of diseases if you read back on history that our forefathers withstood lot of people died but what people lived they didnt shut down their businesses they went o
A lot of lives and and handle the situation of people come you know larry this country was based on risk we all took risks as americans years ago our ancestors anyway did when the ohio territory or through his territory was settled incredible number of plagues of diseases if you read back on history that our forefathers withstood lot of people died but a lot of people lived they didnt shut down their businesses they went on they accepted some of that as a reality of life so in things true of war we dont like casualties none of us do but in a way were in a war its not the same exactly but we are so if we can minimize them we save every life we can we take every step we possibly can do which were going to the process of doing i think we have to reopen the economy because otherwise were not going to have the food supply and were not going to have the ability to to regain the status of living to which i think all of us want to or gradually have. Easiness sam listen to your father thats rig
Be protected from future lawsuits well i think most of them should be very because the fact is that we are trying to cover our will be trying to come out of a severe Economic Situation in which Small Businesses particularly are vulnerable already and have litigation going on about connections to the virus itself particularly those that may be charged with some aspect of the actual disease or some precipitation or aggravation of it strikes me that that thats wrong the same thing is true the doctors hospitals and all the caregivers have out there given care its not easy in normal times youd never do that but in this situation i think its absolutely essential which you put the lawyer in a difficult spot what about those maybe few who do do wrong. Well people who are obsequious have done wrong in the sense of simple negligence so maybe the standard shouldnt be a total prohibition but it ought to be some willful negligence or some something of a higher standard than what we call simple negl