Kaiser workers fired over harassment largely fail to file lawsuits

A Kaiser unit denied claims that it unlawfully terminated and defamed a former nuclear medicine technician after a student intern accused him of sexual harassment, but must address his labor relations lawsuit, a federal judge said.

The employee did not sufficiently assert this Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Mid-Atlantic States Inc. The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland said Tuesday that he released a defamatory statement about the alleged harassment to outsiders or provided details about what public policy his termination allegedly violated.

Judge Ajmel A. Quereshi also dismissed plaintiff Paul Gyamerah’s defamation suit against Prince…