News tagged with 'Workplace Violence'

A California jury recently ordered San Diego's second largest insurance brokerage firm, Barney & Barney, to pay a former employee $2.5 million for injuries she suffered when a fellow worker punched her in the stomach. The plaintiff, Wendy Beckner, was involved in an argument with operations manager Charles Elva Herrin

An employee of a wood factory in Goshen, Indiana killed a co-worker and wounded six others before shooting himself last week. Witnesses say Robert Wissman, 36, was involved in an argument with a fellow worker shortly before the shootings began. Supervisors reportedly told Wissman to go home and "cool off" after threa

Two men on Arizona's Death Row were ordered to pay $6 million last week to the families of two Pizza Hut employees they murdered in a failed robbery attempt. Pima County Superior Court Judge John F. Kelly ordered Kajornsak "Tom" Prasertphong and Christopher "Bo" Huerstel to pay the parents of the victims, James Bloxha