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Oct 14, 2009 9:32 pm US/Central
Pennsylvania AG Investigating Dallas Company
DALLAS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against a Dallas company for deducting health premiums from employees and pocketing the money.
The
lawsuit alleges that dozens of employees who work for Turbine Airfoil Designs in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania were left with massive unpaid medical bills.
David Gassert is a former employee at Turbine Airfoil Designs. "How can they sleep at night knowing that these people don't have health care, don't have eye care and don't have dental? They don't have the basic needs to do their job. How can they do that?"
Turbine Airfoil Designs and its 90 employees manufacture aircraft engine parts. The Pennsylvania AG's lawsuit accuses TAD of deducting premiums from employee paychecks, but failing to pay the health insurance provider. According to the suit, TAD Stopped paying the provider in August of last year.
"As far as I'm concerned, that's sheer neglect, fraud and embezzlement. You took my money, you lied to me and you told me I had coverage and I didn't" says former employee Gilbert Troutman.
TAD CEO John Walton lives in a large house near White Rock Lake. Walton reportedly runs TAD from a Dallas office building at 2911 Turtle Creek Blvd.
According to the lawsuit, dozens of employees sought medical care up until March of this year. However, none of them were aware that their insurance benefits had stopped.
Annette Hoy's husband worked at TAD. "I don't know how people can be so cruel to put other people through this just so they can put money in their pockets."
The Turbine Airfoil Designs plant in Harrisburg has temporarily ceased operations.
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