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Wal-Mart Sues Brain Damaged Employee As Reward for Giving Her Health Insurance


Health & Wellness  (tags: Health, Litigation, wal-mart, brain damage, Debbie Shank )

Sarah
- 632 days ago - motherjones.com
CNN Video is at http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/03/24/kay e.walmart.lawsuit.cnn?iref=videosearch
Comments

Jen B. (21)
Monday March 24, 2008, 6:46 pm
This is awful and inexcusable. The money could have supported this woman for a long time, but is small change to Wal-Mart. Why such petty greed?
 

Elainna Crowell (160)
Tuesday March 25, 2008, 1:11 am
What can you expect from a company which gets almost all of its products from slave workers in China.
 

Jim Phillips (2588)
Tuesday March 25, 2008, 1:13 am
Wal-Mart is a disgusting company. Don't buy anything at Wal-Mart.
They sell inferior products, pay employees practically nothing. This action
alone typifies their thinking about people in general.

TY, Sarah.

 

Brooke M. (31)
Wednesday March 26, 2008, 6:15 am
I wrote Wal-Mart a letter last night letting them know that they have lost my business. Everyone please do the same. I suggested that they set up a fund for the family to offset the money going back to the insurance company.
 

Lillian M. (5)
Thursday March 27, 2008, 4:36 pm
I could not believe this story. While WalMart may have a responsibility to its employees to pursue the settlement money, it should certainly, and more importantly, have a moral responsibility not to collect its winnings from Mrs. Shank and her family. I find it reprehensible that they would seek to collect this money in the first place.
 

Lillian M. (5)
Thursday March 27, 2008, 4:46 pm
http://www.walmartstores.com/contactus/feedback.aspx

In case anyone would like to know where to leave commentary for WalMart.
 

Blue Bunting (855)
Saturday March 29, 2008, 8:25 pm
Hillary Clinton and Wal-Mart: What About Debbie Shank? no story... better illustrates the tattered social contract between workers and corporations...than the story of Debbie Shank and Wal-Mart...Shank...a "Gold Star" mother whose 18-year-old son, Jeremy, was killed in Iraq.Hillary should visit Debbie Shank
 
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