Professor Terry Examines 'Pathology' of COVID Liability Shields
10/17/2022
With more than one million dead from the virus, it wouldn’t be surprising if Americans tried to shift some of their COVID-19 costs to arguably responsible defendants.
But a predicted litigation explosion has not materialized, according to IU McKinney Professor Nicolas Terry, in a post for the Bill of Health blog of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School entitled, “The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields.”
“In its stead (and without any apparent causal valence) we have experienced a proliferation of liability shield (aka limited immunity) laws,” he writes. The blog post explores the types of state liability shields (cf. the federal PREP Act) adopted and the political landscape that made them possible.
Professor Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law at IU McKinney School of Law where he serves as the Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and teaches various 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 serves on IU’s Grand Challenges Scientific Leadership Team, working on the addictions crisis and is the PI on addictions law and policy Grand Challenge grants. His podcast is at TWIHL.com, and he is @nicolasterry on Twitter.
