Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 6/16/20

 North Carolina businesses, universities, schools and government agencies would get broad protections from COVID-19 lawsuits under an immunity bill that moved through committee Tuesday at the General Assembly. House Bill 118 would widen liability immunities first drafted for essential businesses, which the legislature passed in early May. The immunity from lawsuits, filed by people who catch the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, would extend to essentially every business in the state, plus government entities. Republican lawmakers backing the bill said it's difficult to determine where someone actually caught the virus and that businesses just reopening after shutdown orders closed them for months don't need the threat of expensive legal action.

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