{"id":1124,"date":"2022-02-08T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2022-02-08T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T23:09:28","slug":"slippery-slope-decision-by-california-appellate-court-allows-wrongful-death-claim-from-take-home-covid-19-exposure-to-proceed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2022\/02\/08\/slippery-slope-decision-by-california-appellate-court-allows-wrongful-death-claim-from-take-home-covid-19-exposure-to-proceed\/","title":{"rendered":"Slippery Slope Decision by California Appellate Court Allows Wrongful Death Claim from &#8220;Take Home&#8221; COVID-19 Exposure to Proceed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Court of Appeals has allowed an employee\u2019s wrongful death case for her husband\u2019s death from COVID-19 to proceed against her employer, concluding the claim was not barred by California\u2019s Workers\u2019 Compensation Act. The court found persuasive the trial court\u2019s analogy to a decision permitting claims against employers for injuries to family members from \u201ctake home\u201d exposures to asbestos.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/slippery_slope_decision_california_appellate_court_allows_wrongful_death_claim_take_home_0222.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Court of Appeals has allowed an employee\u2019s wrongful death case for her husband\u2019s death from COVID-19 to proceed against her employer, concluding the claim was not barred by California\u2019s Workers\u2019 Compensation Act. The court found persuasive the trial court\u2019s analogy to a decision permitting claims against employers for injuries to family members from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2022\/02\/08\/slippery-slope-decision-by-california-appellate-court-allows-wrongful-death-claim-from-take-home-covid-19-exposure-to-proceed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slippery Slope Decision by California Appellate Court Allows Wrongful Death Claim from &#8220;Take Home&#8221; COVID-19 Exposure to Proceed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[151,31,637],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-california","tag-employment-law","tag-workers-compensation"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}