US company to pay $22.5m over newborn’s death after denying woman remote work
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Chelsea Walsh prematurely gave birth after firm rejected work from home request in 2021 amid high-risk pregnancy
An Ohio freight-brokerage firm must pay $22.5m in damages to a woman whom the company denied permission to work from home as she tried managing pregnancy complications – and then endured her newborn’s death after prematurely giving birth, a state court jury has decided.
The case centering on Chelsea Walsh, her late daughter Magnolia, and Total Quality Logistics (TQL) unfolded as many employers increasingly allowed remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic – but then pushed to get workers physically back into the office.
Matthew C Metzger, an attorney for Walsh’s family,
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