Last progress January 3, 2025 (11 months ago)
Introduced on January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
This bill tells federal courts to give juries a clear instruction in lawsuits about catching COVID-19 due to someone’s carelessness. Juries must use the “reasonable person” standard and be told that simply opening a business is, by itself, considered reasonable and cannot be the only reason to find someone negligent. In short, a business can’t be found negligent just because it stayed open; there must be something else that a reasonably careful person would have done differently .
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