WalMart sues brain-damaged woman for medical expenses

Nice call WalMart. Unfortunately, most people won't hear about you dropping the suit and will continue to think bad things about you. A much better play would have been to reach a deal where they recoup their medical expenses for consistency sake then have the Walton foundation draw up a check of $1 million for the family. But then again, you're PR team seems to be doing a wonderful job without my help.

 

Yes. I will be shocked if this doesn't come back to bite them in the future. With that many employees . . . someone will have something bad happen to them . . . and get paid by insurance . . . and then win a settlement. And when Wal-Mart tries to get reimbursed . . . someone will shout "precedent!"

 

And yet, somehow, I think the company will survive.

 

That's true.

It's also about 23 light years from the point.

 

The sad part is that I know some of Wal-Mart's PR team.
I didn't read the WSJ article, but the first one, the spokeswoman quoted, she's actually pretty cool and was a helluva reporter back in the day.
Last time I talked with her, she liked her job most days, the money and the fact that she was able to work from home. But I'd bet a Wal-Mart billion this deal made her sick to her stomach.
Especially since it buried all the good news Wal-Mart had for its response to Katrina.
With the hurricane rolling in, the CEO sent out a memo that said store managers were empowered to do the right thing regardless of the situation and that no one would be punished for their decisions.
He said it would all be sorted out after everything cleared up.
So, store managers drove forklifts through stores to get bottled water and food to responders. Broke down pharmacy safes to get drugs the doctors and nurses needed.
I don't like Wal-Mart as much as anyone, but they don't always deserve the bashing they get.

 

WALMART CONDONES LOOTING AND PRESCRIPTION DRUG THEFT FROM ITS EMPLOYEES!!!!