Nurse's COVID-19 Death Could Pave Way for Compensability, Despite No Presumption

The family of a Kansas City nurse who died from COVID-19 is hoping that the woman's plight will force Missouri and other states to expand presumption rules for sickened health care workers. “They want that to be her legacy,” said Brent Welder, a well-known Kansas City claimants' attorney who is representing the family of Celia Yap-Banago. Yap-Banago, 69, who had been a nurse for almost four decades, died April 21, less than a month after one of her patients started showing symptoms of the disease, according to Welder and local and national news reports. She and her c...