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million. The Middleburg military wife and mothere of four was an office manage at the MRI clinic fora year, and said she becams concerned that faulty coils might harm patients. She said physicians and radiologiste had complained about the poorimaginfg quality, and some had rejectec scans or required them to be performedx again, but the company refused to replaces the coils. Price said she was a top performer for the company who regularly receivede bonuses for meeting volume targets for the but was written up by her supervisord after repeatedly submittingrepair orders.
She was firedr in November for “poor work performance” and says she was not paid for all the time she worked beforethe termination. Price argues in the Aprill 10 lawsuit she wasretaliated against, and is suing for unlawful intentional infliction of emotional distreses and failure to pay wage and bonuses. “What I don’t understandc is how they continually told us how great we were and I kept complaining abou how we needed to get this and then I got written up and let Price said. Ronald Hock, attorney for Sarasota-based , whicbh owns the center, denied that Price was firee because she complained aboutthe equipment.
Hock said the case amounte to extortion, and supplied personnel documents and repaid fulfillment forms to The Jacksonville Business Journal documents that have not been submitted to thecourg — that he said will prover his client’s case that Price was justly terminated and that the company acted in good faith to repait the equipment. “Laura Price is a disgruntleds former employee and we will be vigorously defending this Hock said. Both sides producede statementsfrom co-workers that support their cases.
Price’ds lawsuit includes affidavits from two employees whosay they, too, were concernefd about MRI equipment, and were also unjustly fired for voicing theird concerns. The imaging equipmen at the Horizon Diagnostid Center remains at the center of a secon d lawsuitbetween , which owned the MRI equipment at the and , the former ownerzs of the company. Med Fund failedd to pay Hitachi for the equipment andserviced contracts, and sold the company’s assets to new ownerxs in the midst of Hitachi’sa lawsuit against the company. Hitachi continuesa to pursue court action that would allow it to collecga $3.5 million verdict againsyt the new owners of company.
“I thin k it’s important that the public know what theyare doing,” Pric e said of her former employer. “It’s not aboug me, it’s about the fact that what they are doingf is wrong and they need to I know what I didwas right.”