An Ohio-based company that initially balked at granting a mom’s request to work from home during a high-risk pregnancy has been found liable for the newborn’s death and ordered on Wednesday to pay $22.5 million in damages.
Chelsea Walsh, according to her lawsuit, made the work-from-home request with Total Quality Logistics on Feb. 15, 2021, four days after undergoing an operation on her cervix to prevent her from going into early labor.
Instead, the lawsuit states, “TQL presented Walsh with an impossible choice — work at the office and put additional strain on her child, or take an unpaid leave of absence and lose the income and health insurance she needed.”…