The case of a doctor who died of Covid in Florence should be treated as an accident at work .
This was established by the court of Florence. To sue was the victim's daughter, killed by the virus she had contracted because she went to visit positive patients .
The insurance denied compensation but the woman, assisted by the Florentine lawyer Jacopo Pepi, went to the court which recognized the death as an accident at work and sentenced the insurance company to pay 130,000 euros , of which 125,000 as compensation and 5,000 as a penalty for late settlement.
THE EVENT - According to what was reported by the Tyrrhenian Sea of Florence, the doctor died in the hottest days of the pandemic in 2020: he contracted the infection while assisting patients hospitalized in an RSA in northern Italy . He also visited his patients at home, although they were positive. On 21 December two years ago, the newspaper reports, the insurance company had rejected the request for compensation, highlighting that "Covid-19 is not an accident but it is a disease", even going so far as to dispute that the doctor had contracted the infection in the workplace.
For the court of Vercelli, on the other hand, "it is demonstrated" how the doctor "was actually and concretely carrying out his professional activity in a context of high risk up to the moment of contagion , assisting individuals and patients hospitalized in the Rsa". It also established that death from Covid is an accident at work for the doctor by virtue of the decree law 17 of March 2020, relating to the measures to strengthen the NHS launched to deal with the epidemiological emergency. "Following the introduction of this rule - the judges write - the Coronavirus infection occurred at work is therefore considered an injury in all respects and not illness".
(Unioneonline / D)
