Dzinglski v. Weirton Steel Corp.

NEELY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict and judgment in the Circuit Court of Brooke County against Weirton Steel Corporation [‘Weirton Steel”] in the amount of $500,000 for the tort of outrage and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The judgment was based upon the circumstances surrounding an investigation by Weirton Steel into alleged improprieties on the part of the plaintiff below, Andrew P. Dzinglski, while he-worked as a management employee at Weir-ton Steel in 1984.

Mr. Dzinglski had worked at National Steel Corporation for 25 years when National Steel became…