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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Corrigan, in response to questions certified from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, holds that the Workers' Compensation Act does not bar an employee's spouse from suing an employer for negligence where the employee contracted Covid-19 at work and brought the virus home. The Act allows causes of action that are not legally dependent on an employee's injury, so it is irrelevant whether the employee ever became sick himself. Secondly, an employer does not owe a duty of care to protect an employee's household from Covid-19. Though forseeability and moral blame factors tend to impose a duty on the employer, the prospect of liability stemming from secondary infections would create untenable financial consequences for employers and impose significant burdens on the court system from the likely flood of complex cases.