Calvert v. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.

OPINION

HANSEN, Chief Judge:

In this action for damages for retaliatory discharge under the Workers’ Compensation Act, 85 O.S.1991 §§ 5-7, a jury awarded Plaintiff $10,000.00 in actual and $30,-000.00 in punitive damages. The trial court overruled Defendant’s motion for new trial and its motion to modify the judgment as to punitive damages and entered judgment accordingly. Defendant appeals to this Court.

Defendant on appeal asks us to overrule a decision by this division of the Court of Appeals, Wise v. Johnson Controls, Inc., 784 P.2d 86, (Okla.App.1989). We decline to do so. Defendant…