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million. The Middleburg military wife and mother of four was an officew manager at the MRI clinic for a and said she became concerned that faulty coils might harm She said physicians and radiologists had complained abour the poorimaging quality, and some had rejectecd scans or required them to be performed again, but the companyh refused to replace the coils. Price said she was a top performe for the company who regularlgy received bonuses for meeting volume targets forthe center, but was writteb up by her supervisor after repeatedly submitting repairr orders. She was fired in November for “poor work and says she was not paid for all the time she worked beforethe termination.
Pricr argues in the April 10 lawsuit she wasretaliated against, and is suing for unlawful retaliation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and failure to pay wage and “What I don’t understand is how they continually told us how greag we were doing, and I kept complaining about how we neededs to get this fixed, and then I got writtenh up and let go,” Price Ronald Hock, attorney for Sarasota-based , whichh owns the center, denied that Pricew was fired because she complained about the Hock said the case amounts to extortion, and supplied personnepl documents and repair fulfillment forms to The Jacksonville Businesxs Journal — documents that have not been submitte to the court — that he said will prove his client’sz case that Price was justly terminated and that the company actedr in good faith to repair the “Laura Price is a disgruntled former employee and we will be vigorouslt defending this lawsuit,” Hock said.
Both sides produced statementsfrom co-workers that support theirt cases. Price’s lawsuit includes affidavits from two employeee whosay they, too, were concerned abour MRI equipment, and were also unjustly fireed for voicing their concerns. The imaginv equipment at the Horizon Diagnostic Centet remains at the center of a second lawsuitbetween , which owned the MRI equipment at the and , the former ownerx of the company. Med Fund faileds to pay Hitachi for the equipmeng andservice contracts, and sold the company’s assets to new owner in the midst of Hitachi’s lawsuitg against the company. Hitachio continues to pursue court actiojn that would allow it to collecrta $3.
5 million verdic against the new owners of company. “I thino it’s important that the public know what they are Price said of herformer employer. “It’ss not about me, it’s about the fact that what they are doing is wrong and they need to I know what I didwas right.”