Wal-Mart must pay a former driver $34.7 million after a California jury found that the company defamed him with false claims of workers’ compensation fraud.
The two-part verdict was filed in California Superior Court, San Bernardino County on Wednesday and Nov. 19. The jury said Jesus Fonseca should receive $25 million in punitive damages and $9.7 million in actual damages.
Fonseca was injured on the job when his semi-truck was rear-ended by another such truck, and after filing a workers’ compensation claim he was under a doctors order restricting driving at work. The company fired him, citing surveillance that ...
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