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Alternative Title:
Health Secur
Personal Author:
McCourt, Alexander D. ; Sunshine, Gregory ; Rutkow, Lainie ;
McCourt, Alexander D. ; Sunshine, Gregory ; Rutkow, Lainie ; Less -
Description:
This article describes and analyzes the body of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery litigation that has arisen since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Search terms were developed to identify judicial opinions related to emergency preparedness, response, and recovery activities. Using the Thomson Reuters Westlaw legal database, searches were conducted to collect judicial opinions related to disasters that occurred in the United States between September 11, 2001, and December 31, 2015. An electronic form was used for data abstraction. Cases that did not directly involve emergency response, preparedness, or recovery activities were excluded. Data were summarized with descriptive statistics. We identified 215 cases for data abstraction. Many of the cases stemmed from preparedness, response, and recovery activities related to hurricanes (57.7%) and terrorist attacks (16.7%). The most prevalent emergency response activities at issue were disaster mitigation (29.3%), disaster clean-up (21.9%), a defendant's duty to plan (14.4%), evacuation (12.6%), and conditions of incarceration (12.1%). Although it can be anticipated that litigation will arise out of all phases of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery, policymakers can anticipate that the most litigation will result from pre-event mitigation and post-event recovery activities, and allocate resources accordingly.
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Civil Defense
Disaster Planning
Disasters
Emergency Preparedness
Emergency Response
Environmental Restoration And Remediation
Humans
Litigation
Prisoners
Public Health Preparedness/response

Source:
Health Secur. 17(3):240-247 ;
Pubmed ID:
31206320
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC6623980
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States ;
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CDC Public Access
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