Crime & Safety
Lawsuit Filed Against Employer of 'Serial Infector'
A Nebraska-based staffing firm hired a worker charged with starting a hepatitis C outbreak.
The staffing agency that hired a medical technician facing he started a hepatitis C outbreak in Exeter is now the subject of a lawsuit.
Nebraska-based Triage Staffing was sued by an attorney representing some of the victims of the outbreak.
The technician, Dave Kwiatkowski, was a "traveler" hired by Triage Staffing. The company places its employees at hospitals all around the country.
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Triage placed Kwiatkowski at , according to a legal complaint.
The complaint, which can be found above in the "PDFs" section, alleges Triage was negligent in hiring Kwiatkowski.
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"Triage failed to exercise reasonable care when it hired Mr. Kwiatkowski in view of all of the circumstances surrounding the job," said the attorney, Domenic Paolini, in a statement.
Kwiatowski also worked at hospitals in six other states. Officials are if he spread his hepatitis C to other patients in those states.
Kwiatkowski was called a "serial infector" by prosecutors. He's scheduled to be in court this week to face charges of fraud and tampering.
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