Nurse's Retaliatory Firing Claim Against Hospital Survives Motion To Dismiss

Mealey's (October 7, 2020, 3:02 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois judge on Sept. 15 ruled that a nurse who alleges that she was fired by a hospital in retaliation for warning co-workers that the facemasks they were given to protect them from the novel coronavirus were not as effective as the Particulate Respirator N95 facemask may proceed only with her retaliatory discharge claim against the hospital, partially granting a motion to dismiss, noting that the other claims and defendants were dismissed voluntarily (Lauri Mazurkiewicz v. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, et al., No. 2020-L-003511, Ill. Cir., Cook Co.)....