Don’t Attack McDonald’s Quite Yet

Pitch Weekly:

This week the Arkansas Times had an article about McDonald’s worker Nigel Haskett, who jumped across the counter to help a woman who was being beaten. He then got into a fight with the man who was assaulting her, and the man shot Haskett several times in the stomach. mcdonaldThat was last year. Since then Haskett’s had several stomach surgeries and his medical bills have grown to more than $300,000, and McDonald’s wouldn’t pay the medical bills. Or at least that’s what the Arkansas Times and then Huffington Post reported, and naturally blogs started a ruckus about it.

But it wasn’t quite true. The McDonald’s where Haskett worked was a franchisee McDonald’s and the owner, Ray Nosler, had his own independent medical insurance. Nosler turned the case over to his insurance company, Ramsey, Krug, Farrell and Lensing, which refused to pay the bills, arguing that “Mr. Haskett’s injuries did not arise out of or within the course and scope of his employment.”

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