{"id":466,"date":"2024-04-30T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/new-jersey-court-reinstates-frontline-workers-covid-19-wrongful-death-case\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:23:17","slug":"new-jersey-court-reinstates-frontline-workers-covid-19-wrongful-death-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/new-jersey-court-reinstates-frontline-workers-covid-19-wrongful-death-case\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Court Reinstates Frontline Workers&#8217; COVID-19 Wrongful-Death Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>In an unpublished decision, the Appellate Division reinstated\u00a0a Bergen County Superior Court wrongful-death suit in favor of the family of married health care aides who died from COVID-19, finding the trial court denied the plaintiffs\u2019 motion to amend before discovery was completed.<\/p>\n<p>The estates of Alfredo and Susana Pabatao, a couple married for more than 40 years,\u00a0filed suit in July 2021 against Hackensack Meridian Health and Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen. Alfredo Pabatao worked at the hospital as a transport aide, while Susana Pabatao worked at a nearby nursing home. But the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/07\/nyregion\/alfredo-and-susana-pabatao-dead-coronavirus.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">couple died at the hospital<\/a>, just days apart, on March 26 and 30, 2020, due to COVID-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/399\/112057\/Pabatao-v.-Palisades.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the opinion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unpublished decision, the Appellate Division reinstated\u00a0a Bergen County Superior Court wrongful-death suit in favor of the family of married health care aides who died from COVID-19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[294,143,500,498,497,415,499,501],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-case","tag-court","tag-covid19","tag-frontline","tag-jersey","tag-reinstates","tag-workers","tag-wrongfuldeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}