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WOMEN WORKERS ASSAULTED BY PATIENT WIN $2 MILLION JURY DECISION
US: Washington jurors recently awarded about $US2 million to a former Hospital nurse and three coworkers assaulted by a patient.
The women sued the state arguing that it knew the patient had a history of targeting women, failed to protect them and later retaliated against them.
Western State Hospital is Washington’s largest inpatient psychiatric facility and is overseen by the state Department of Social and Health Services. One worker suffered a traumatic brain injury and a fracture to her lower back after the patient jumped across the counter of the nurse’s station, threw her to the ground, and bit off part of her ear.
Unbelievably, the state’s attorneys noted in their trial brief that the women chose to work in a dangerous profession.
Workers compensation laws generally prohibit workers from suing their employer, but the women argued under Washington Law Against Discrimination that they suffered a hostile work environment, weren’t given reasonable accommodations after the attacks and were retaliated against.
Source: Confined Space and the Washington News Tribune, 27 May, 2022
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