Judge Dismisses COVID Lawsuit Against Former New York Gov. Cuomo

A federal choose on Monday dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit towards former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that blamed his administration for COVID-19 deaths in nursing properties throughout the state.

The plaintiffs argued in court docket papers that their relations had contracted COVID-19 in New York state nursing properties because of a March 2020 order issued by Cuomo that prohibited nursing properties from denying the admission of individuals into their amenities “solely based mostly on a confirmed or suspected analysis of COVID-19.” The transfer was carried out in order to unencumber hospital mattress area throughout the early onset of the pandemic by sending folks from these medical amenities to nursing properties.

“As defined herein, and regardless of the Court docket’s deepest sympathy for Plaintiffs and their households, the actual fact stays that their proffered claims usually are not legally viable,” Failla wrote in her opinion.

The choose additional defined that the criticism lacks “allegations that the nursing properties, because the alleged perpetrators of ‘personal violence,’ dedicated a state-sanctioned violent act that brought about decedents hurt,” including that “the amended criticism merely pleads motion that ‘elevated the probability’ that decedents could be unsafe.”

Cuomo stated in September throughout the Home listening to that it was the federal authorities that allowed folks to go from hospitals to nursing properties in March 2020. The federal government on the time was the one “that first stated in March 2020 that COVID-positive folks may go from hospitals to nursing properties. That was your ruling,” he stated final yr.

Apart from the nursing house allegations, Cuomo additionally confronted a handful of allegations from ladies that he acted in an inappropriate method towards them.

The previous governor resigned from workplace in August 2021, permitting for present Gov. Kathy Hochul to take over.