[Wage Slave]

Not saying the Walmart employee wasn’t at fault, but wondering about the hospital that possibly discharged her too early. I’m a nurse, work with the frail elderly, and see it all the time.

[Always Right]

She died five days after being released from a two-week hospital stay to treat that infection, the statement said.

That must have been one helluva cut. Doesn't make sense that the hospital could not treat the infection or that they would release someone who was still badly infected.

[ccmay]

Normally I am filled with contempt for our legal system, but in this case it seems they got it just about right.

-ccm

[badpacifist]

Went to a hospital and came out with an infection. That never happens. /s

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The jury that heard the case awarded Guillory’s three grown children $100,000 each for their mother’s wrongful death; $750,000 for mental anguish, pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life; and another $37,274 for medical and funeral expenses, court records show.

The woman was 90 years old.

She was going to die of something in the not too distant future.

Luckily she died in a manner which allowed her next-of-kin to cash in.

[Gabz]

WalMart ping.

Something doesn’t sound right here........

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

“The jury found the Wal-Mart employee, Martha Watson Hookfin, 100 percent at fault, an unsigned verdict forum shows.”

The article could bother to explain if the employee acting in accordance with her employee duties. Why was her employer sued instead of her (unless its just the old ‘deep pocket envy’)

[badgerlandjim]

That damn Wal-Mart! Cutting that woman down in the prime of life like that! Uh... do you suppose the award was so much because the plaintiff attorneys provided evidence that there was a high likelihood of her being pregnant?