At least 25 states, either through executive orders or state laws have now granted COVID-19 liability protections for health care workers, health care facilities, and nursing homes. Texas should not join them.  It is said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.  How many times must we learn again that when nobody is accountable, nobody is safe? The COVID-19 pandemic should not be used as an excuse to push a longstanding agenda of preventing jurors from holding corporations accountable for causing preventable injuries and deaths.

Jurors don’t always get it right, but they get it right many more times than not. For good reason, we trust jurors to decide whether one corporation owes another corporation billions of dollars.  For good reason, we trust jurors to decide whether a violent criminal should be assessed the ultimate penalty, the death penalty. Yet now, some are arguing that we cannot trust jurors to decide whether health care providers, nursing homes and businesses are taking reasonable steps to protect their employees, patients, residents and customers from COVID-19.