A flight attendant filed a lawsuit against Southwest Airlines for her husband’s COVID-19 death, claiming the carrier failed to properly protect their employees from exposure to the coronavirus during a mandatory training she attended last summer.
Filed court documents claim Carol Madden’s 73-year-old husband, Bill, died on Aug. 12, 2020, from “COVID-19 and the complications thereof, having contracted that illness from Ms. Madden,” who had to attend the required training sessions last July.
Madden had been required to attend “Recurrent Training that would lead to renewal or reauthorization of her ‘Certificate of Demonstrated Proficiency,'” her suit stated.
Madden claims that from the start of the mandatory training that began on July 13th, “Southwest utterly failed to implement the most basic precautions to safeguard the health and wellbeing of the Flight Attendant Trainees,” including not conducting proper contact tracing.
While Southwest maintains they are “incredibly sympathetic” to those who have lost loved ones due to COVID-19, the airline is seeking to dismiss Madden’s case saying that the blame laid on the company is “misplaced.”
