. (Tribune News Service) 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, hos
Flight attendant sues Southwest Airlines over husband’s COVID-19 death
The 69-year-old flight attendant alleges she got the virus after attending a training meeting in July 2020. She recovered, but her husband died nearly a month later.
A man looks out over a Southwest Airlines 737 parked at a gate at Houston Hobby Airport.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant is suing the airline after her husband died of COVID-19 following a training session in which she says she caught the virus.
Carol Madden, 69, said her airline “utterly failed to implement the most basic precautions to safeguard the health and wellbeing” during a mandatory training session last July at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. She’s asking for $3 million in damages.
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Carol Madden, 69, a Southwest flight attendant, filed a $3 million lawsuit against the airline
She claimed her husband s COVID-19 death was a direct result of the airlines lax protocols during her mandatory training a month before he died
Madden said the airline s safety protocols for its employees during the mandatory meeting were in stark contract to the precautions for passengers
Carol told the USA TODAY that she firmly believes my husband would still be here if Southwest had applied the same safety protocols for employees
Bill Madden, 73, was a veteran and a retired railroad signal engineer
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