{"id":2870,"date":"2025-11-10T20:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/washington-court-rules-on-covid-19-comp-for-flight-attendants\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T20:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T20:15:53","slug":"washington-court-rules-on-covid-19-comp-for-flight-attendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/washington-court-rules-on-covid-19-comp-for-flight-attendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington court rules on COVID-19 comp for flight attendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lisa Azorit-Wortham, a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, tested positive for COVID-19 in early April 2020 after working eight flights \u2013 including four transcontinental trips \u2013 between March 16 and March 27, 2020. During this period, neither crew nor passengers were required to wear masks, and Azorit-Wortham testified that she had minimal contact with others outside of work. She filed a workers\u2019 compensation claim, arguing that her illness met the definition of an \u201coccupational disease\u201d under Washington\u2019s Industrial Insurance Act because it arose naturally and proximately from the distinctive conditions of her employment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Azorit-Wortham, a flight attendant for Alaska Airlines, tested positive for COVID-19 in early April 2020 after working eight flights \u2013 including four transcontinental trips \u2013 between March 16 and March 27, 2020. During this period, neither crew nor passengers were required to wear masks, and Azorit-Wortham testified that she had minimal contact with others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1759,1018,852,1679,1758,1757,1756],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-attendants","tag-comp","tag-court","tag-covid19","tag-flight","tag-rules","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}