Cassville Accident Lawyer ~ UPDATE: Wal-Mart Drops Claim ~ Cassville, Monett, Aurora, Mt. Vernon, Table Rock Lake
David Payne ~ Insurance Claims Lawyer for Plaintiffs
This related story was previously posted on Missouri Injury Attorney Blog.
Oh, happy day ! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Score one for the good guy! Bad press and public pressure influenced the "right" decision being made...compassion is wonderfully applied by THE corporate giant.
"David A. Payne is an experience injury attorney in Cassville taking serious injury cases."
Wal-Mart has dropped their lawsuit against their disabled former employee Debbie Shank. Wal-Mart was trying to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Jackson, Missouri women's trust it had put into her health insurance trust plan for her care claiming rights to the money under a subrogation provision.
Wal-Mart stated they paid out for the benefit of their employee over $470,000 in medical expenses, and was seeking to get it all back.
The retail giant won in court, including exhausting all appeals, against the Shank family, and was set to collect the money.
After intense negative public pressure (including the all powerful Missouri Injury Attorney Blog), Debbie Shank’s story gained great national publicity, turning into a public relations nightmare for the retail giant.
Wal-Mart has just now sent Jim and Debbie Shank a letter stating they will not collect the money it had won in a lawsuit.
Shank put out a statement saying “It wasn’t me who made this happen, it was the outcry of the people, and if there’s a lesson in this story, it’s that we the people still means something.”
Oh, a feel good story-finally!
