Needle Phobic Pharmacist Wins $2.6M Verdict Against Rite Aid
http://www.law360.com/articles/614532/needle-phobic-pharmacist-wins-2-6m-verdict-against-rite-aid
Law360, New York (January 23, 2015, 7:35 PM ET) — A New York federal jury on Thursday awarded $2.6 million to a former Rite Aid pharmacist who said the company fired him because a needle phobia prevented him from giving flu vaccination shots.
The jury found that Rite Aid’s treatment of Christopher Stevens, who was fired in 2011 after he refused to attend immunization training because he had trypanophobia, ran afoul of the Americans with Disabilities Act and New York’s Human Rights Act. It awarded Stevens $485,000 in back pay, $1.2 million in front pay and $900,000…
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Bull shit lawsuit.TheADA is a godsend to crooked lawyers.
If a lawyer was fighting for your rights, she wouldn’t be crooked, would she?
Since the medical industry and law enforcement are as opiophobic as some pharmacists, why would that attitude get anybody fired? In fact, maybe Walgreens and CVS are now looking for people just like that.
Couldn’t happen to a better company.