A nurse sued Brigham and Women’s Hospital for discrimination and retaliation and was awarded more than $28 million by a jury last Wednesday, according to a report from The Boston Globe.
Gessy Toussaint filed the suit against the hospital in 2014, which described an incident where she stuck up for a fellow nurse who is also of Haitian-American descent who she believed was a victim of verbal abuse.
Following the incident, Toussaint said, the hospital targeted her by investigating her for alleged instances of poor patient care.
After three days of deliberation, a Suffolk Superior Court jury said Toussaint did not prove race discrimination but did say that the hospital and manager Mary Ann Kenyon were guilty of retaliation.
The full report is available on The Boston Globe.
