COVID-19 as an Industrial Disease – Have the Floodgates Opened for Claims Against Providers?
As many will be aware, a Welsh Senior Coroner recently ruled that the deaths of two nurses were caused by COVID-19 and it was an industrial disease. Graeme Hughes, the senior coroner, said that “it was more likely than not” that the nurses were “exposed to Covid-19 infection at work, became infected” and that the …