( October 14, 2026, 9:15 AM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York appellate court dismissed an estate administrator’s appeal of a lower court’s dismissal order and affirmed the lower court’s judgment in an estate’s wrongful death and negligence suit against a nursing home after the decedent allegedly contracted COVID-19 at the nursing home and died, finding that the nursing home was entitled to immunity under New York state law and that no exceptions to immunity applied....