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Organizations and Companies Should Be Held Accountable
There are good public safety reasons to hold companies and organizations
accountable for grossly negligent behavior.
Examples of egregious conduct that would be protected by legal
immunity legislation passed by the U.S. House:
- Residents of a New Orleans nursing home were evacuated to a nursing
home in Arkansas. If a resident dies from a neglected, infected
bedsore in the Arkansas nursing home 6 months from now, the Arkansas
nursing home would be protected.
- If a slumlord provides 25 substandard apartments for displaced
families and several children become ill from lead poisoning, the
slumlord would be immune.
- If a contractor is instructed by a local authority to bulldoze
a contaminated house and the contractor bulldozes a different, uncontaminated
house, the contractor would be immune.
- A number of residents in Mississippi who evacuated to a hotel
providing free rooms in Atlanta are injured when a fire breaks out
in the hotel and the sprinkler system fails to work. The hotel and
the sprinkler manufacturer could both be immune.
- A construction manufacturer donates defective roofing trusses
and several roofs cave in killing the homeowners and their families.
The construction supplier would be immune.
September 14, 2005
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