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A Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the airline, alleging that lax COVID-19 protocols during mandatory training last summer, and slack contact tracing after an attendee tested positive, led to her husband s death from the virus.
Carol Madden, a 69-year-old Baltimore-based flight attendant who has worked for Southwest since 2016, is seeking more than $3 million in damages for what the lawsuit says was the airline s negligence, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland.
She and her husband, Bill, a veteran and retired railroad signal engineer who drove her home from the one-day training session at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in July, got sick days after the training and eventually tested positive for COVID-19. Bill s oxygen levels plunged, and his health deteriorated so rapidly that he couldn t take his own temperature. He died a few weeks later in a York, Pennsylvania, hospital, with COVID p
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Pictured, Carol Madden Southwest Airlines flight attendant with husband Bill Madden who she blames her employer for his COVID-19 death.
Pictured, Carol Madden Southwest Airlines flight attendant with husband Bill Madden who she blames her employer for his COVID-19 death.
Carol Madden Southwest Airlines flight attendant files lawsuit against her employer claiming they are responsible for her husband’s COVID-19 death as a result of lax protocols during mandatory work training last year. Claims she got sick and passed on virus on to husband who died shortly later.
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A Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her employer, accusing the company of lax COVID-19 protocols and contact tracing that eventually led to the death of her husband.
Carol Madden, 69, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court in Maryland seeking more than $3 million in damages, USA Today reported.
Madden attended a one-day training session at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on July 13. Her husband, Bill, drove her home from the event.
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The couple got sick days later and later tested positive for COVID-19, according to the lawsuit. His condition quickly deteriorated and he died a few weeks later. COVID pneumonia was listed as the first cause of death.