Thursday, February 25, 2021

Long-term care providers and other businesses and entities in Wisconsin now have broad, but not unlimited, immunity from liability related to COVID-19 exposure, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers [today/February 25]. The immunity provision is included in a bill addressing the state’s unemployment insurance program, which received final legislative approval on February 23.[1]

The new law provides immunity from civil liability for death, injury or other damages due to any act or failure to act resulting in, or related to, a person’s exposure to COVID-19. Such action or failure to act must be in the performance of the entity’s functions or services.

The immunity does not apply to reckless or wanton conduct or intentional

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