Appeals Court Issues Opposing Decisions on Comp Benefits Over COVID Deaths

The family of a gravedigger who died of COVID-19 after working to bury those who died of infections in early 2020 can collect workers' compensation death benefits, but the family of a refrigerator engineer who succumbed to the illness in early 2021 is not eligible, according to two rulings issued last week by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York. Wellwood Cemetery Association Inc. denied the death benefits claim filed by the spouse of one of its workers who died of cardiopulmonary arrest following a COVID-19 infection in April 2020, but a workers' compe...