6th Circuit Orders Trial On Nursing Director’s Claim That Fraud Forced Her To Quit

(March 6, 2018, 2:47 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A home health care provider’s former director of nursing may proceed with her claims that she was forced to resign due to her employer’s decision to seek and receive fraudulent reimbursements from the federal government as a jury may determine that the employer’s alleged fraud “plus the employee’s moral conscience and reasonable fear of being accused of participating in the employer’s fraud is enough to justify quitting,” a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 2 (Sue Smith v. LHC Group, Inc., et al., No. 17-5850, 6th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 5345)....

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