Legislature passes bill to protect businesses from COVID-19 lawsuits
Brittaney Gulley (left) checks the temperature of fellow Half Shell employee Terra Sullivan May 4, 2020. Temperature checks and masks are among the tools businesses use to protect employees. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday, Aug. 12, setting a "higher bar" for people to sue businesses, schools and healthcare facilities accused of making them sick through negligence.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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