Mich. Panel Says Hospital, Rehab Not Entitled To COVID Immunity In Sepsis Death

( August 3, 2026, 7:24 AM EDT) -- LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan appellate court reversed and remanded a lower court ruling granting summary disposition to a hospital and rehabilitation facilities in an estate representative’s medical malpractice suit over the death of a senior patient from sepsis, finding that the defendants failed to show a nexus between the alleged negligent treatment of the decedent’s pressure ulcers and the COVID-19 pandemic to establish immunity under the Pandemic Health Care Immunity Act (PHCIA)....

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