March 06, 2024
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday tossed without prejudice a suit seeking to hold Pilgrim's Pride Corp. liable for the COVID-19 deaths of an employee and the spouse of another worker, saying the plaintiffs failed to specify when the employees were allegedly exposed.
July 12, 2021
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. has told a Texas federal judge it's immune from a lawsuit over the COVID-19 deaths of an employee and the spouse of another worker, citing a new state law that limits liability in coronavirus-related cases.
April 22, 2021
A Pilgrim's Pride employee hit the meatpacker with a wrongful death suit Wednesday in Texas federal court, accusing the company of placing profits over safety after she contracted COVID-19 on the job and purportedly transmitted the infection to her now-deceased husband.