Boyd v. Winton Hills Medical & Health Center, Inc.

Painter, Judge.

This is a retaliatory-discharge case brought by a medical-records supervisor for a health center. The supervisor claimed that the health center terminated her after she filed a workers’ compensation claim. We must now decide if she presented enough evidence of retaliation to withstand the health center’s motion for summary judgment and if she should have been permitted to amend her complaint to add a common-law wrongful-discharge claim. We answer both queries in the affirmative, and reverse.

I BACKGROUND

Plaintiff-appellant, Beverly Boyd, was the medical-records supervisor for…