9 workers died, thousand infected by COVID at N.J. hospital system that was denied $2.5B insurance payout, lawsuit claims

An insurance carrier has refused to pay RWJBarnabas Health up to $2.5 billion in claims, even though nine staff members have died and more than 1,000 have been infected with COVID-19, according to a lawsuit. The hospital system claims it lost huge amounts of revenue during the pandemic when surgeries were canceled and its properties were “damaged, lost, uninhabitable, unusable and unfit” due to the rapidly spreading virus.