An Ohio freight-brokerage firm must pay $22.5m in damages to a woman whom the company denied permission to work from home as she tried managing pregnancy complications – and then endured her newborn’s death after prematurely giving birth, a state court jury has decided. > > The case centering on Chelsea Walsh, her late daughter Magnolia, and Total Quality Logistics (TQL) unfolded as many employers increasingly allowed remote work during the Covid-19 pandemic – but then pushed to get workers physically back into the office. > > Matthew C Metzger, an attorney for Walsh’s family, said in a statement that the sizable verdict handed up on Wednesday in favor of his client came only after TQL passed up “multiple opportunities to resolve this … for far, far less”. Metzger’s statement added: “We wish those opportunities had been taken seriously.”