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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hutchinson answers in the affirmative the certified question of whether an executive order under which the nursing home seeks immunity provides “blanket immunity for ordinary negligence [claims] to healthcare facilities that rendered assistance to the state during the Covid-19 pandemic.” The question comes from several wrongful-death suits where each decedent passed from complications during the pandemic and alleges that the nursing home negligently failed to control the spread. The court of appeals modifies the question as follows: “Does [the] Executive Order … which triggered the immunity … grant [it] for ordinary negligence claims to healthcare facilities that rendered assistance to the State during the COVID-19 pandemic?” The question is not what the executive order says but what the relevant statute invoked by the order says, which is clear that, except for willful misconduct, any “private person, firm or corporation” who renders “assistance … at the request of the State during [a] disaster shall not be civilly liable for causing the death of, or injury to, any person.” Remanded.