Best Formed Plastics, LLC, and Jane Stewart v. George Shoun

CRONE, Judge.

Case Summary

[1] Best Formed Plastics, LLC (“BFP”) and Jane Stewart appeal the trial court’s entry of judgment on jury verdicts in favor of their former employee George Shoun. Shoun sustained a shoulder injury while at work and subsequently filed a worker’s compensation claim. His employment was later terminated. He sued BFP and Jane, one of its owners, for retaliatory discharge, defamation, and invasion of privacy by false light, claiming among other things, that he was fired in retaliation for filing a worker’s compensation claim.

[2] Following a trial, the jury found in Shoun’s…