Can/should event hosts be charged with negligence if someone dies from COVID...

[Beartracks]

Last edited Sun Nov 15, 2020, 01:33 AM - Edit history (1)

... the way bartenders can be charged if their customer kills someone by drunk driving?

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[onecaliberal]

1. Good question.

[Hoyt]

2. For a voluntary event, I'd have a hard time finding for someone who

became ill after attending. Not to mention the difficulty of proving Covid was contracted at the event.

[elleng]

3. Depends on the nature of the hosting, imo.

Casually inviting some friends over to watch football???

for Pizza??

[lettucebe]

4. It'd be difficult to prove that's where you caught it

Unless one literally was in quarantine before and after and saw absolutely no one else, maybe then. Still difficult though.

I do think businesses could be held liable if they force employees to work and don't provide adequate PPE. Just my opinion.

[Timewas]

5. Probably/hopefully not

In the case of a bartender he is serving drinks to someone who,because of the drinks, is becoming less and less capable of judging their own condition. In the case of any sort of gathering where attendees are actually paying an admission fee and who in fact have access to any information that tells them that it is pretty unsafe to do so and do so regardless. I doubt seriously that the person who arranged the event is any more responsible than the attendees.

IMHO