An Alabama court awarded $100,000 to a former stripper who sued her ex-employers for allowing her to drive home after drinking on the job. Patsy Hamaker of Bessemer, whose suit blamed bosses at The Furnace for a 2007 car wreck, was awarded $100,000 compensatory damages by a Jefferson County jury and no punitive damages, the Birmingham (Ala.) News reported Thursday. Hamaker, who has sought $1.4 million in damages, said she drank enough during her Oct ... (Continue story)
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