Senator Durbin rejects threat of business liability litigation amid coronavirus reopening

Illinois Senator Richard Durbin tells reporters at a weekly news conference that Democrats are still waiting to see the language of an immunity provision from Senator Mitch McConnell on a new coronavirus relief bill having made much on the floor about a tsunami of lawsuits that could be filed because most of us in business owners and individuals would be rushed to the courthouse by crafty lawyers during Covid 19 but in a nation of 330 million Americans and three and a half million infected, there had been only 15 consumer personal injury cases filed in 2020, asking how many medical malpractice cases had been filed mentioning Covid 19 is an element or how many doctors and nurses and hospitals had been sued across United States of America.
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin tells reporters at a weekly news conference that Democrats are still waiting to see the language of an immunity provision from Senator Mitch McConnell on a new coronavirus relief bill having made much on the floor about a tsunami of lawsuits that could be filed because most of us in business owners and individuals would be rushed to the courthouse by crafty lawyers during Covid 19 but in a nation of 330 million Americans and three and a half million infected, there had been only 15 consumer personal injury cases filed in 2020, asking how many medical malpractice cases had been filed mentioning Covid 19 is an element or how many doctors and nurses and hospitals had been sued across United States of America.
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