Reed v. Sale Memorial Hospital & Clinic

FLANIGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff Joyce Reed brought this action against defendants who are nine physicians doing business, as a partnership, under the firm name of Sale Memorial Hospital and Clinic. The petition alleged that plaintiff was wrongfully discharged from her employment by defendants, in violation of § 287.7801 of the Workers’ Compensation Law which prohibits an employer from discharging any employee for exercising any of his rights under that Law and gives a civil action for damages to an employee so discharged. The petition sought actual and punitive damages. The amount of punitive…