Prognosis
Did You Bring Home Covid? Spouse Sues Company for Infection
- Judge weighs novel case blaming employer for household illness
- Defense lawyer says claims must be ‘tethered to this planet’
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A federal judge is weighing what she called a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that would hold an employer responsible for a worker’s spouse getting sick with Covid-19.
Plenty of families have sued businesses, from retailers to meatpacking plants, claiming that unsafe workspaces during the pandemic caused a worker’s sickness. But Corby Kuciemba and her husband Robert Kuciemba are going an extra step by blaming his employer, Victory Woodworks Inc., for spreading the illness into his household.