- The family of a Wake Forest Baptist Health nurse who died from COVID in 2021 is asking the North Carolina Court of Appeals to revive its case for workers’ compensation.
- The state Industrial Commission ruled against benefits for Amanda Nieft’s family in 2025. Hospital experts argued that Nieft likely contracted COVID outside work.
- Nieft’s family filed a brief Monday arguing that the commission ignored evidence from both the state and federal government that health care workers faced a heightened risk of contracting COVID on the job.
The family of a Wake Forest Baptist Health nurse who died from COVID in 2021 is asking the North Carolina Court of Appeals to revive its pursuit of workers’ compensation.
Amanda Nieft died on July 15, 2021, little more than a month after first showing signs of COVID and less than a month after being hospitalized at Wake Forest Baptist.
Nieft, a direct patient care nurse, had been exposed to COVID while treating a patient for three days in early June 2021, according to an Appeals Court brief filed Monday by Nieft’s husband and daughter…