Boston University Gets Worker’s Disability Bias Case Trimmed

Boston University partially defeated a suit alleging it discriminated against a worker with long-haul Covid-19 symptoms when a federal judge dismissed four of the employee’s six claims.

The former plumber and steamfitter didn’t take his federal and state disability bias claims to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or a state discrimination commission within the allotted time limit, dooming those portions of the suit, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts said.

Kevin Gamst started working for the university in 2019. He came down with Covid-19 in 2021, ended up hospitalized for nearly two weeks, and lost his ...