Walmart

Here is a link to a nifty site that traces the growth of Walmart from 1962 to 2007.
http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=51

Last night, Walmart was named "Worst Person in the World" on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, because of their suit to recover $470,000 in medical expenses they had paid to a former employee. Debbie Shank, the employee, was in an accident 8 years ago and left with severe brain damage and in a wheelchair. Her family sued the trucking company that caused the accident and after lawyer fees received $417,000 which was placed in a trust for her long-term nursing home care. Walmart legally sued her for the money they had paid for her medical care and won. It's all in the fine print apparently. A week after the Shank family lost their final appeal, their 18 year old son was killed in Iraq.
Walmart had net sales of of $90 billion in the third quarter of 2007. Certainly an exception could be made in this case. It would also be great publicity for a company that has gotten a lot of bad publicity in the last few years to allow the Shank family keep the money.