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Board Must Pay Fired Worker Who Questioned Expenditures
Temporary controller is awarded $655,000 in damages
A nonprofit economic development organization in Alaska has been
ordered to pay $400,000 in punitive damages, and its president has
been ordered to pay another $200,000, to a former employee who was
fired and defamed after she reported her concern that the president
was misappropriating corporate funds.
The Supreme Court of Alaska has said that the misconduct was sufficiently
egregious to affirm the jury’s award of the punitive damages,
plus $15,000 for emotional distress, $20,000 for loss of reputation
and $20,000 for back wages. It denied an award of $217,000 for future
wages because it said the employee had only a one-year contract
and could not collect for anticipated earnings beyond the end of
the year. (Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association v. Anderson,
No. S-9955, No. 5623, 9/6/02.)
Article Archives >> Lead Stories >> October 2002
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