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Walmart takes woman’s support money.

Filed under: Life in General — 3/26/2008 @ 1:42 pm

CNN is carrying the story of the Shanks. Debbie Shanks was a Walmart employee and got her insurance through Walmart. When she was given permanent brain damage in an accident, she won a million dollars. $417,000 of that was put in a trust to pay for her long term care at a nursing home.

Walmart has sued to recover the money they paid for her medical bills and has won.

You can email the corporate office here.

And I will no longer be shopping at Walmart.

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  1. My Own Thoughts » Blog Archive » Whoo hoo! Walmart changed their mind.:

    [...] This story upset me significantly. But Walmart changed their mind a week after I wrote them! [...]

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