Family of City's first Swine Flu Victim to Sue
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
New York, NY –
The family of the assistant principal who was New York City's first swine flu victim intends to sue the city and its health and education departments for $40 million.
In a notice of claim filed last week, Mitchell Weener's widow and three sons say the city was negligent in failing to quickly report the outbreak, and failing to warn Weener that he'd been exposed to the H1N1 virus. It also claims the city didn't do its best to control the outbreak. Mayor Bloomberg says, not so:
BLOOMBERG: Everybody can sue everybody. The city didn't do anything wrong. We have to make decisions with schools opened or closed. Our obligation is to keep schools open.
REPORTER: The mayor also says he's sorry about Weener's death. Weener worked at IS 238 in Queens. He died at Flushing Hospital, on May 17th.
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