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Beckwith-Adams v. State5/2/2000
there?
A. Yes.
Q. Okay. Were you all seated around a table?
A. Yes.
Q. How did that meeting go?
A. I felt like it was just all planned out. You know, goodbye, go and pack up your stuff and leave.
Q. Did Mr. Walton ever raise his voice with you?
A. No.
Q. How about Mr. Culbertson?
A. Nobody raised their voice.
Q. Did anybody insult you during that meeting?
A. I felt it was insulting to be told that I wasn't qualified to do my job . I issued more permits than anybody else during the previous year. I issued 160. Some people had issued 40, 60 permits.
Q. Did anybody act in any unprofessional manner toward you?
A. No.
Q. At that time?
A. No.
Q. Okay.
A. They presented it as a quandary.
Q. What type of quandary?
A. Well, as people that had worked together and supposedly as friends, that we were in this - this predicament. My degrees, my resumes, my transcripts, even with the courses I had taken, were in the file for the whole five years. They were in personnel. I carried them in when I had the interview to get this job . They had them in the file. They didn't have any problem with my education or experience until such time as I was identified as being somebody that wasn't willing to violate the law, and then they had to find a reason to get rid of me.
Following the meeting there were a number of teleconferences between Mr. Beckwith-Adams and department personnel about his education. As to those calls Mr. Beckwith-Adams testified in his deposition page 77 lines 12-16:
Q. In the course of the various teleconferences and other meetings that you had, were they conducted in a professional manner?
A. Yes, I think so.
In his accident report Mr. Beckwith-Adams referred to being placed on administrative leave under adverse conditions. He was asked in deposition about the adverse conditions. (page 79 lines 8-25; page 80 lines 1 -7):
Q. Referring back to your accident report, Mr. Beckwith-Adams, in the portion that is stated, "Description of the Injury ," where it asks you to describe the injury in detail and state how it occurred, I'll read to you what I see, and if I'm wrong, correct me.
"Mr. John Walton, P.E., director of air pollution, E and C, put me on administrative leave under adverse conditions. This stress caused diabetes and loss of eye, blood sugar went to 495, one half of remaining eye and lost eye and urinary control, plus mental health problem." Is that correct?
A. Yes, ma'am.
Q. Okay. What were the adverse conditions that you are referring to in that description?
A. It's retaliation in dismissal, high levels of stress.
Q. Anything else?
A. Just normal stress a person would receive that they were erroneously disciplined and dismissed.
In support of his claim Mr. Beckwith-Adams submitted an assessment by Dr. Singh. When submitted, defendant objected and the Claims Commissioner overruled the objection. Assessment listed a number of diagnoses: (1) manic depression, (2) thoughts of suicide, (3) diabetic, (4) hemocromotoese. The assessment did not establish causation between the injury on the job claimed by Mr. Beckwith-Adams and diagnoses made by Dr. Singh. When Mr. Beckwith-Adams was asked in his deposition if Dr. Singh advised that his mental health condition is a result of job stress, Mr. Beckwith-Adams answered that he was not asking for that:
Deposition, page 105
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