Ex-Employees Sue Hospital Over Firings

Sat., Nov. 9, 1996

From Staff And Wire Reports

Two former Pullman Memorial Hospital employees have filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit against the medical center and a former co-worker, alleging they lost their jobs because one of them was a lesbian.

The civil suit, filed Wednesday in Whitman County Superior Court, alleges Nan Miguel was fired as manager of the hospital’s radiology department because she refused to fire one of her employees based on a doctor’s suspicion that the employee was a lesbian.

Miguel and the sonologist, Mary Jo Davis, were both replaced by men, the suit says.

Miguel and Davis will each seek at least $300,000 in lost wages, in addition to other damages, said Craig Mosman, Miguel’s lawyer.

The suit names the hospital and radiologist Charles Guess as defendants.

Hospital administrator Scott Adams said he could not comment on the suit. Guess did not immediately return a phone message left Friday evening at his Moscow, Idaho, home. , DataTimes

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