Overview

• The TSJCV’s Social Chamber confirmed a Valencia labor court ruling ordering the Conselleria de Sanitat to pay €29,939 in damages to a family doctor infected while treating patients in 2020.
• The judges rejected the Generalitat’s appeal, making the compensation order final.
• The ruling applies the Labor Inspectorate’s established causal link—used to impose a 30% surcharge on benefits—to the question of civil liability in this lawsuit.
• The INSS recognized the sick leave as a professional contingency, and the Provincial Directorate declared employer responsibility for lack of safety measures, issuing a 30% benefit surcharge in a resolution that became final.
• The physician, who worked at a Sagunto health center, tested positive on March 16, 2020 and was later hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia, spending four days in reanimation and 28 in the ICU.