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A story (subscription required) in the Indianapolis Star on February 7 details how Indiana’s Republican state lawmakers, who hold supermajorities in both chambers, are pushing two bills that will extend civil immunity to businesses, including nursing homes, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

But Nicolas Terry, the Hall Render Professor of Law at IU McKinney School of Law called the expansion “completely unnecessary.”

"The bottom line is immunity shields, any kind of immunity, only ever protects bad actors," he said. "Good businesses, good actors, will do the right thing. They will use reasonable care. But it's bad actors who want and then hide behind immunity shields."

Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at IU McKinney, where he teaches healthcare and health policy courses. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, mobile health, the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, and the opioid overdose epidemic.

He is one of the permanent bloggers at the Bill of Health blog and is a host of “The Week in Health Law” podcast at TWIHL.com. He is @nicolasterry on twitter.