A recent multi-million dollar class-action settlement brings an end to a nearly decade-old legal battle for local health care workers, a case in which one of the original doctors filing suit died before seeing resolution.
According to terms announced this month, Catholic Health Initiatives will pay $2.5 million in back wages owed to 67 health care workers.
The group was represented by attorneys with The Blankenship Law Firm of Seattle, who issued a news release with terms of the settlement.
Those eligible for payouts include physicians, physician assistants and advanced registered nurse practitioners who entered into contracts with the Franciscan network “providing that they receive compensation ‘per hour’ for time worked at any of Respondents’ prompt care or urgent care facilities from November 13, 2010 to the present,” according to the law firm’s earlier class description posted online and case filings.
The settlement is the second portion of a lawsuit involving a then-CHI Franciscan clinic in Gig Harbor, in which a partial award dealing with the wrongful termination portion was issued in 2020.
Two physicians, Michael Romney and Faron Bauer, and advanced registered nurse practitioner Kristen Childress filed individual claims and a class action on behalf of employees in the health system’s area prompt care and urgent care clinics in November 2013 in King County Superior Court.
The case eventually moved to arbitration.
The three worked at St. Anthony Prompt Care in Gig...
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