Q&A: Coronavirus
Originally published:
This is an English translation (via GPT-5.4). Read the original Hebrew version.
Coronavirus
Question
Hello,
If a person infects someone else with coronavirus and that person dies as a result, what is he liable for?
Is it because of the damages of a person who causes harm, or because of the damages of "tooth," since the coronavirus derives benefit from causing harm, or something else?
Answer
I thought about deleting this. But then I wondered whether you might actually mean it as a real question.
This is, of course, a case of damage caused by a person, not damage caused by property (the coronavirus is not the carrier's property), and the damage here is indirect causation at most.