Safeway Fails to Get Covid Wrongful Death Suit Dismissed

Safeway Inc. failed to persuade a California judge to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who worked in the grocery giant’s distribution center in Tracy and died of Covid during the first months of the pandemic.

• Superior Court Judge Richard Seabolt ruled the family of Pedro Zuniga had sufficiently supported the claims in the lawsuit, including negligence, to allow the case to proceed toward trial
• At least 51 workers at the distribution center tested positive for the virus by April 17, 2020, according to the family’s lawsuit
• Safeway told workers at the warehouse in ...