Working in a nursing home can be stressful. But the job became even more so for an occupational therapist who reported alleged billing irregularities and was eventually terminated. Now a Superior Court judge has upheld a $100,000 jury award for negligent infliction for emotional distress, rejecting an argument from the nursing home’s owners that all terminations cause stress.
Julia Rice worked at Mystic Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, a southeastern Connecticut health care facility owned by the Sbriglio family. Rice had initially signed on at Greentree Manor, another facility owned by the same company, in 1999. But when an outside company was hired to manage the center in 2003, Rice quit to work for a competitor because of disagreements with the management company. Four years later, Kellie Kulick, a new administrator at Mystic Manor, reached out and offered Rice a position as an occupational therapist.
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