Legal Opinion
Wright v. Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 16, 1992PublishedCited by 187 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtO’Connor, J.
In this case, which is here on direct appellate review, we consider the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant a jury’s verdict of $100,000 in favor of the plaintiff, *470Anita Wright, against her employer, the defendant Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children (Shriners Hospital), on Wright’s claim that Shriners Hospital wrongfully terminated her at-will employment in violation of public policy. We also consider the sufficiency of the evidence to warrant the jury’s verdict of $50,000 against the defendant Salvatore Russo, the hospital administrator, for tortious interference with Wright’s…
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