![]() ![]() Madden’s attorney, Dan Mastromarco, said he was preparing a legal response. ‘The claims asserted in the complaint reflect an understandably emotional response to a devastating personal loss, but they are not actionable under the law,’ the airline said. Southwest also said there is no way to know exactly where or when Madden contracted the disease. The carrier said it is required to provide a ‘reasonably safe work environment’ for its workers, but that the ‘duty of care’ does not extend to spouses or others in the household. The airline has filed a motion to dismiss the case in which it expressed its sympathy to Madden and others who have lost loved ones to the illness, but said blaming it for the death is ‘misplaced.’ Death lawsuit is misplaced claims airliner Pictured the flight attendant with husband, Bill. ‘We were expendable.’ Carol Madden Southwest Airlines lawsuit. ‘They didn’t are about us,’ she told the USA TODAY. The employee wasn’t given paid time off unless she could prove she had COVID-19, the lawsuit says. ‘I love my airline, but they didn’t love me back,’ Madden added.Ĭarol said she told her supervisor on Jthat she might have been exposed to COVID-19 and was experiencing symptoms, as was her husband. ![]() They did not do that in my training last year,’ Madden said. Madden told USA Today that she ‘firmly believes my husband would still be here’ if Southwest had applied the same safety protocols for employees as it does for passengers. ![]() Three days after the training session, Carol developed coronavirus symptoms, as did other attendants who attended the training, according to the lawsuit. The fire extinguisher was never wiped down or sanitized before the next attendant used it, according to the lawsuit. ‘I love my airline, but they didn’t love me back,’ ![]() The lawsuit gives an example of a drill where flight attendants had to show they knew how to use a fire extinguisher. The husband died a few weeks later in a York, Pennsylvania, hospital, with COVID pneumonia listed as the primary cause of death, according to the news outlet, which cited the lawsuit filed in US District Court in Maryland. The husband’s illness followed just days after Madden ‘un-knowingly’ caught the virus- which she cites occurred during her mandatory training on July 13, 2020. Madden and her husband, Bill, 73, a veteran and retired railroad signal engineer, who drove her home from the one-day training session at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, became ill days later and eventually tested positive for the virus. New York woman, Carol Madden, 69, a cancer survivor who has worked with the airline since 2016, is seeking more than $3 million in damages for what she claims was the airline’s negligence during mandatory training last summer, USA Today reported. Claims she got sick and passed on virus on to husband who died shortly later.ĭoes she have a legitimate case? A Southwest Airlines flight attendant has filed a wrongful-death lawsuitagainst the airline over its alleged lax coronavirus protocols during training - that she said led her to catch COVID-19 and give it to her husband, who died of the illness a month later. 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. Pictured, Carol Madden Southwest Airlines flight attendant with husband Bill Madden who she blames her employer for his COVID-19 death. ![]()
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