Swift Beef Loses Worker Covid Liability Decision at 5th Cir.


An appeals court has again ruled that federal laws and policies didn’t shield a meat processor from workers’ Covid-related health liability claims.

Swift Beef Company, a subsidiary of JBS USA, failed to prove that the federal government’s “heavy regulation” of the meat processing industry protected the firm from a liability lawsuit, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday in an unpublished opinion.

The opinion largely adheres to a similar July 7 decision by the circuit that Tyson Foods Inc. in Glenn v. Tyson wasn’t exempted by the 2020 federal declaration that meat production was …



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