Olinger v. General Heating & Cooling Co.

ULRICH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant General Heating and Cooling Company (GHC) appeals the judgment entered in behalf of plaintiff Jane Olinger for retaliatory discharge. The jury awarded Ms. Olinger $14,048 in actual damages and $86,-000 in punitive damages and judgment in those sums was entered.

GHC alleges several points on appeal. It contends that the court erred (1) in allowing Ms. Olinger to submit her claim for wrongful discharge to the jury, (2) in permitting the introduction into evidence of GHC’s guilty plea in the ancillary federal criminal case, (3) in allowing a claim for punitive…