A Small Slice of Justice for Covid Injustice, By Brian Simpson
This case which led to a US women receiving $ 12.6 million for being sacked for not taking a Covid shot, may not be replicated in the Australian system. But still, it is instructive and motivational, so perhaps, as with the toxic torts cases, the dam may break one day here:
"A woman fired by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan over not receiving a COVID-19 vaccine has been awarded more than $12 million in damages.
A jury on Nov. 8 awarded Lisa Domski, a former employee of the company, $10 million in punitive damages.
Jurors also awarded $1 million in non-economic damages, $1.375 million in front pay damages, and $315,000 in back pay damages.
Jurors said that Blue Cross Blue Shield illegally discriminated against Domski when the company denied her request for an exemption from its policy requiring COVID-19 vaccination.
The company also illegally terminated Domski over the lack of COVID-19 vaccination, the jury found.
"Lisa is so thankful that a diverse jury of her peers saw through the company's bogus decision to terminate her after 38 years of service. Clearly, the religious accommodation process was meant to stamp out religious beliefs of employees and promote COVID-19 vaccination within the company," Noah S. Hurwitz, an attorney representing Domski, told The Epoch Times in an email."
And good luck to her too!
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