Ex-TV anchor fired over COVID-19 vaccine refusal: lawsuit

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She and two former co-workers have filed a federal lawsuit against the Michigan station's parent company, Scripps Media Inc.

anchor Deanna Falzone says she was fired because she refused to comply with the parent company’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy.She and two other former co-workers have filed a federal lawsuit against the parent company, Scripps Media Inc.

“Employees who submitted religious accommodation requests were made to overcome a presumption against the sincerity of their beliefs when sincerity should have been presumed,” attorney Noah Hurwitz wrote in the lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. Claudette Lozano, a former sales account executive, said she was vaccinated but fired because she defended rights of her co-workers to receive a religious accommodation.

 

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