By The Houghton Lake Resorter (Michigan)
Two former Houghton Lake Ambulance Authority employees who resigned last December have filed a lawsuit in 34th Circuit Court, Roscommon, against their former employer.
Daniel G. Waites and Holly Laginess, through their attorney, Elliot J. Blumberg, Gaylord, claim they were coerced to resign from their positions. Waites was the operations manager and a paramedic for the ambulance service and Laginess was an emergency medical technician.
In the lawsuit, Waites and Laginess claim the ambulance authority threatened them, thereby forcing them to resign. Waites said in his complaint, “Defendant undertook a series of conduct wherein it threatened the criminal prosecution of plaintiff unless he resigned his position...that his children would be removed from his care as a result of the criminal prosecution.” He claimed he received “satisfactory” performance reviews from the ambulance authority until, “in an attempt to force plaintiff to resign his employment, defendant fabricated a series of lies and false allegations.”
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