Widow of man who died of COVID sues longtime employer See’s Candy for negligence

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A long-time See’s Candy Shops Inc. employee is suing the company, alleging that a bad coronavirus protocol at Carson’s packaging warehouse caused her to contract the disease in 2020 and to later infect her husband and one of her daughters, ultimately causing the death of her spouse at the age of 69.

Maria Saucillo of Upland, widow of the late Gilbert Saucillo Jr., filed a negligence / wrongful death lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, seeking unspecified damages. Maria Saucillo’s two daughters, Emma Saucillo and Patricia Flynn, are also complainants.

A representative for See could not immediately be reached for comment.

In March 2020.

The employees were turned away by management and Maria Saucillo, like her colleagues, was forced to work near other employees without proper PPE, the lawsuit says.

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“Several employees were coughing and sick, but were not sent home,” the suit says.

Maria Saucillo subsequently contracted the coronavirus from another employee and at the end of March 2020, See closed the warehouse, according to the lawsuit.

“By then it was too late,” the costume states.

Maria, Gilbert and Emma Saucillo have all tested positive for the coronavirus, the combination says. Although Emma Saucillo struggled, she survived, but Gilbert Saucillo battled COVID-19 for about a month before dying on April 20, 2020, at the San Antonio Regional Hospital in Upland, according to the costume.

See “knew and should have known” that their alleged failure to take appropriate security measures would increase the risk of their employees being infected and spreading the virus by infecting one or more family members, the lawsuit said.