Tyson Foods said workers’ compensation is the exclusive remedy for the family of a meatpacker who died from COVID-19 in a motion asking a federal court to throw out a civil negligence claim, the Sioux City Journal reports.
Michael Everhard, 27, died June 18 after he was hospitalized and diagnosed with the disease. His family filed a negligence complaint in December alleging Tyson forced him to work in a confined space without sufficient safety measures to protect him from the virus.
The case was filed in state court and transferred to the federal court for Iowa.
Tyson, in its motion t...
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