Thursday, April 3, 2008

LISSA’S: Score one for the good guys!! Wal-Mart Publicly Shamed Into Letting Shank Keep Money

Wal-Mart Drops Claim


Wal-Mart Stores is dropping a controversial effort to collect more than $400,000 in health-care reimbursement from a former employee who has been in a Missouri nursing home since she suffered brain damage in a traffic accident.


The retailer said in a letter to the family of Deborah Shank it will not seek to collect money the Shanks won in a lawsuit against a trucking company for the accident. Wal-Mart has been roundly criticized for its claim.


Pat Curran, executive vice president for human resources at Wal-Mart Stores U.S., wrote that Shank’s extraordinary situation had made the company reexamine its stance.

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