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hen Laura Sandoval said goodbye to her husband, Eduardo, in August, she thought he'd return home to Mexico in three months. She trusted that the fruit farm that hired him — Washington Fruit and Produce — would protect Eduardo from COVID-19.
Instead, he got a case of COVID that will cripple him for life.
And when Laura flew to Spokane to care for her husband, she thought the company would — at the very least — provide the workers compensation that Eduardo legally was entitled to for catching COVID-19 on the job.
But to this day, she hasn't seen a penny.
"I don't know how they can sleep at night, knowing the situation we're in," Laura tells the