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I saw this story on tv yesterday and although I fully understand that Walmart is fully within their rights to take back all of the money from this woman, it is just WRONG. What was she paying insurance premiums for anyway? My family will not give Walmart or Sams one more dime! I went shopping for three birthdays today and paid a little more elsewhere...it felt great to not set foot in that store!

Even though they are only 7 min away and everything else is at least 40 min away, I'm going to eliminate them as a place to shop. i am so sick of them. In my mind this is just evil. It goes beyond wrong. The Bible says the love of money is the root of all evil and this story is a perfect example of that.imo

I saw that and my first thought "was that it wasn't enough that they have put the small mom & pop stores out of business, but now they go after their employees who probably didn't make a whole lot to begin with."

Makes the meaning "the rich get richer" make sense doesn't it!

My problem isn't with Wal mart but with insurance companies.

You pay outrageous premiums to be "insured", but when
something happens and you need to use it, YOU end up
paying ridiculously AND your premiums go up.

Insurance is necessary, but a complete and total rip off!

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Jen

The bible says..... The love of money is the root of all Evil
Mark Twain said.... The lack of money is the root of all Evil
And I say... Wal-mart is the root of all evil!

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Mom of one kangaroo!

I still don't think WalMart is any worse than most retailers.

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~Happiness is a large family~

LOL!

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married 8 years to a crazy Brit, mommy to a banana, she is 4 and a pineapple who is 11 months, mommy to 3 ~angel~ babies

Yeah, well put. Every month walmart ticks me of just a little more- I think I'm done there. I'd rather drive 45 miles with three babies, a 6yr old and 4 yr. old to shop for stuff than go there...target can have the extra pennies that I "save" when I go to Walmart, because truthfully I will pay the extra just to have a company that cares about their employees and customers.

I have not been to Walmart in 12 days, lets see how long we can go!!! Some people don't mind walmart, and yeah, that's up to them...but this woman is done with it...I say we start a count to see how long some of us (the people who hate WM) can go with out shopping there!

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One happy wife and mommy!!!

I feel sorry for this woman and her family but I think she had a crummy lawyer. The right of an insurance co to recover money they had to pay due to the fault of another person (in this case the trucking co who caused the accident) is standard policy on almost any insurance policy. If I went and looked at the fine print of my health insurance policy, it would most likely have an identical clause to that effect. This lady's attorney should have known and negotiated a settlement/sued for enough damages to cover having to reimburse the insurance compay and leave this woman enough money to live on with her disability. I noticed that "legal fees" took a huge chunk of her damages award:

Two years after the accident, Shank and her husband, Jim, were awarded about $1 million in a lawsuit against the trucking company involved in the crash. After legal fees were paid, $417,000 was placed in a trust to pay for Debbie Shank's long-term care

Hmmm, $1,000,000 -417, 000 = $583,000 That's a lot of "fees." IMO, their attorney has a lot more to be ashamed of than Walmart.

I worked for Walmart several years ago in the same state as this woman. I quit about four years before her accident, but at the time Walmart no longer managed their own health plan. Employees were covered under a policy through Blue Cross Blue Shield. Unless in those four years the company went back to self managing their health plan (which I doubt), there is likely another party involved here- the insurance company.

This woman would have been in the same boat even if she had been insured through a policy from a more popular retailer/corporation. Except maybe CNN wouldn't be running another article about how evil Walmart is.