putting this here cause it might become a bit political..........
I look forward to politicians working together for the good of the American people some fine day.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he will not pass a coronavirus relief bill in the Senate which does not include liability protections.
“We’re not negotiating over liability protection,” he told CNBC as Congress looks to craft a coronavirus relief agreement.
Why would it be important to Dems to be able to bring lawsuits against healthcare workers and businesses?
I'm all for holding China and the WOW liable, but not Doctors, Nurses, healthcare workers, and others.
Why is it so important to protect insurance companies and corporations from liability to American
people for either corporate negligence or recklessness? If you are in a car accident, you are governed by the laws of negligence as it pertains to civil liability. Should we require an exception from these standards for corporations when they act unreasonably and someone is injured or dies? Isn't one of the best ways to contribute to ending a pandemic to require corporations to abide by recognized legal standards? You and I do not not get a pass from that standard in our everyday life. We will be sued if we run a stop sign and injure someone. Why should a corporation get a pass with regard to the way it treats employees and customers? Liability standards with respect to employees are more stringent because we have workers compensation.
Why does Wal-Mart, Target and Costco require masks for employees and customers? Why doesn't Fareway Stores require masks? Have Wal-Mart, Target, Costco, the CDC, and epidemiologists helped establish a standard of how a reasonable corporation treats employees and customers? Maybe, and maybe not. A jury of 8-Iowans can decide. I wouldn't want to be on the side of Fareway Stores.
Why didn't Tysons require social distancing when the pandemic hit, and either immediately require face shields and masks, or the social distancing standards of the CDC? Eventually they did, but they knew their plant conditions and CDC recommendations and did nothing at first. Tysons has spent plenty on lobbyists seeking a free pass on the liability, so let's give that to them. Their workers don't have that power.
In Waterloo I was told 5 employees died at the Tyson plant from COVID-19. If Tysons knew or should have known there was a probability of death or serious injury did they carry on business as usual, and if so should they have been allowed to carry on business as usual in a pandemic? I just don't understand why corporations should be immune from lawsuits, when you and I are not immune.
When you run a stop light and hit someone you are held liable, and your insurance carrier pays the damages.
