Vehicles sit outside the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, Iowa, on May 1, 2020. Civil rights attorney Tom Frerichs on June 25, 2020, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estates of three Tyson Foods workers at its pork processing plant in Waterloo who died after contracting coronavirus. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Ravaged with COVID-19 infections at its meat plants, Tyson Foods Inc. is turning to federal preemption to wipe out negligence lawsuits brought by dozens of employees and their families who got sick from the coronavirus.
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Amanda Bronstad
Amanda Bronstad is the ALM staff reporter covering class actions and mass torts nationwide. She writes the email dispatch Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass. She is based in Los Angeles.
