Law Practice
Dec. 11, 2008
Jury Shocks Kaiser with $3.9 Million Award to Whistle-Blower
The panel unanimously rejected claims made by Kaiser lawyers and staff that Dr. Michael Martinucci was a poorly performing physician and had launched lewd sexual advances and racist tirades on co-workers.
Daily Journal Staff Writer LOS ANGELES - When Dr. Michael Martinucci started working as a radiologist at Kaiser Permanente's Hollywood hospital five years ago, he found a department that he said was years behind more prominent medical facilities. So he launched a tenacious campaign to raise the standards of the radiology section and its several dozen technicians. That crusade won him foes, not fans. But Martinucci won some ...
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