(The Center Square) â Healthcare providers in Illinois are not only fighting against an ongoing pandemic, but the threat of malpractice and negligence lawsuits connected to thousands of COVID-19 deaths.Â
Healthcare Heroes Illinois, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of long-term care providers and hospital workers, is calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reinstate a level of protection from lawsuits connected to COVID-19. Pritzker included a level of immunity in his emergency orders early in the pandemic but allowed them to sunset in June.Â
âFrom the outset of this global health crisis, the first-responders in the field and the doctors and nurses in the ERs, ICUs and skilled nursing facilities didnât flinch at responding to the call of duty to protect their patients, while opportunistic TV lawyers were already drawing up plans to turn the tragedies of this pandemic into their own personal profit centers,â said Healthcare Heroes Illinois spokesman Paul
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Dec 14, 2020 10:18 AM
Cook, Madison and St. Clair counties just put Illinois on the map for being one of the worst âJudicial Hellholesâ in the nation â again.
This discouraging, yet unsurprising news comes from the American Tort Reform Foundationâs (ATRF) newly released 2020 Judicial Hellholes report, an annual report that spotlights the jurisdictions where documented histories of lawsuit abuse have earned them reputations as Judicial Hellholes, and where constituents are forced to suffer the far-reaching impact of an imbalanced court system.
This year, Cook, Madison and St. Clair counties earned the No. 8 spot on the list of nine Hellholes, down from No. 7 last year. While this can technically be viewed as progress, being labeled the nationâs eighth worst Hellhole instead of the seventh is hardly what I would call an improvement to our reputation.
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Dec 14, 2020 1:11 PM
(The Center Square) â Healthcare providers in Illinois are not only fighting against an ongoing pandemic, but the threat of malpractice and negligence lawsuits connected to thousands of COVID-19 deaths.
Healthcare Heroes Illinois, a nonprofit group that advocates on behalf of long-term care providers and hospital workers, is calling on Gov. J.B. Pritzker to reinstate a level of protection from lawsuits connected to COVID-19. Pritzker included a level of immunity in his emergency orders early in the pandemic but allowed them to sunset in June.
âFrom the outset of this global health crisis, the first-responders in the field and the doctors and nurses in the ERs, ICUs and skilled nursing facilities didnât flinch at responding to the call of duty to protect their patients, while opportunistic TV lawyers were already drawing up plans to turn the tragedies of this pandemic into their own personal profit centers,â
Op-Ed: The challenges of doing business within Illinois judicial hellholes | Illinois thecentersquare.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thecentersquare.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.