(Photo: Michael715/Shutterstock) According to the complaint, Gutierrez, who was 70 years old, worked in the deli department at a Miami Beach Publix store. Alongside Gutierrez at work, for at least two consecutive days near the end of March, was a woman who was coughing and exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, the complaint said. (Photo: Michael715/Shutterstock)

Publix Super Markets Inc. was hit with a lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on Monday after one of its employees died from COVID-19.

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Michael A. Mora

Michael was born and raised in South Florida. He went to undergrad at Florida Atlantic University and earned his master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the crypto litigation reporter for Law.com, as well as an editor for ALM Global. You can email him at [email protected].