Appeal of Linn

The petitioners, Lucinda Kirk Linn and Jodi A. Seaver, appeal decisions of the New Hampshire Department of Labor (DOL) ruling that the respondent, Beech Hill Hospital, LLC, did not violate the Whistleblowers’ Protection Act (Act), RSA 275-E:2 (1999), when it discharged them. We affirm the Linn decision and affirm in part, vacate in part, and remand the Seaver decision.

These appeals arise out of events occurring on May 10, 1997, at the Beech Hill Hospital (hospital), a drug and alcohol rehabilitation hospital. Earlier that year, the hospital had been investigated by the New Hampshire…