The firm responsible for security at a major Victorian hotspot hotel has gone into liquidation as it faces a lawsuit alleging the state’s second wave was its fault.
Unified Security is the lead defendant in a class action suing it for damages for allegedly allowing Covid-19 to get into the community.
But the Supreme Court of Victoria on Friday was told the firm was out of money and had gone under.
Unified Security supplied guards at Rydges on Swanston, from where 90 per cent of positive Covid cases seeded in the state’s second lockdown.
Also named in the suit is MMS Security, which was responsible for guards at a second quarantine hotel, Stamford Plaza.
Leakages from the two hotels caused hundreds of deaths and thousands of infections, with the state in its second lockdown for almost four months, the government’s Covid-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry found.
Dragan Markovic, whose father Nenad Markovic died of Covid-19 during the second wave, is the lead plaintiff suing the two security companies.
His lawyer Andrew Fraatz said on Friday he hoped the suit would proceed even though Unified Security was in liquidation because of the company’s insurance.
“I’m on safe ground in saying the contract between the state of Victoria…
