A former nursing home worker in South Dakota has been awarded more than $12 million in a judgment against three insurance companies that denied her workers' compensation claim, according to the Associated Press.
In 1999, Alice Torres, a cook at Meadowbrook Manor nursing home in Rapid City, filed a workers' compensation claim for carpal tunnel syndrome. She had sought about $8,000 for medical bills, lost time and physical impairment. But insurance adjusters denied the claim.