Shaw v. W. M. Wrigley, Jr. Co.

Benham, Judge.

Appellant, E. Joan Shaw, a former employee of appellee W. M. Wrigley, Jr. Company (“Wrigley”), filed suit against the company under OCGA § 34-6A-1 et seq., the Georgia Equal Employment for the Handicapped Code (“GEEHC”), claiming that Wrigley fired her because she had had cancer. A jury found for Wrigley, and appellant brings this appeal. We affirm.

Ms. Shaw was the company nurse at one of Wrigley’s plants when, in early 1983, she was diagnosed as having breast cancer. A mastectomy was performed, the cancer was successfully removed, and approximately four weeks later Shaw…