Coalition Writes Congress for Liability Protection as Economy Reopens from COVID-19 Pandemic

A diverse coalition of over 200 trade associations and other organizations, including bank and credit union trade groups, wrote lawmakers on May 27 to enact “temporary and targeted liability relief legislation” to safeguard businesses, nonprofits and others from frivolous lawsuits as employees return to workplaces.

“Absent a targeted safe harbor for those that work to follow applicable guidelines, the fear and uncertainty from boundless liability threatens to impede our country’s social and economic recovery,” the groups wrote. “In the wake of prior crises, Congress came together to pass timely and targeted liability protections with strong bipartisan support because lawmakers understood the acute economic threat of lawsuits at moments of maximum economic vulnerability.”

The groups stated that these protections would be “limited in scope and preserve recourse for those harmed by truly bad actors who engage in egregious misconduct.”

Read the letter.