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LAWSUIT VICTORY FOR MICHAEL SENISCH. JURY RULES THAT ATLANTICARE WRONGFULLY FIRED HIM FOR HONORING THE WISHES OF PATIENT WHO REFUSED TREATMENT

 

A jury of eight men and women ruled in favor of paramedic Michael Senisch was wrongfully terminated after honoring a patient's wishes to refuse recommended medical treatment.

 

Mr. Senisch and a fellow paramedic visited the home of Brian and Wendy Johnson in February 2016. Ms. Johnson had a severe infection but declined to let the paramedics place an IO intraosseous infusion in her arm. The process entails using a drill-like device to insert a catheter into a patient's bone to deliver fluids or medications.

 

Instead, Mr. Senisch administered a holistic treatment known as Reiki to Ms. Johnson after learning she preferred holistic approaches over traditional medicine. Mr. Senisch claims physicians reprimanded him for not inserting an IV or IO, and he was fired shortly after the incident.

 

AtlantiCare previously said Mr. Senisch's claims in the lawsuit, filed in 2016, are "simply untrue."  The eight member jury panel of course, felt otherwise. The claims by Mr. Senisch were true and he has been vindicated and his good name and reputation restored.

 

The jury awarded Mr. Senisch his back pay and emotional distress damages of $90,000.00. This now clears the way for Mr. Senisch to seek equitable relief with the Court for reinstatement to his former position as a paramedic. he will be awarded reimbursement of his attorneys fees and costs and prejudgment interest which totals more than $800,000.00.

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Michael Senisch, of Bridgeton, who is also a licensed physician assistant and Reiki practitioner, alleges AtlantiCare retaliated against him by firing him after he did not place an intraosseous infusion into Wendy Johnson, who refused it based on her beliefs in new age, holistic medicine.

 
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MICHELLE J. DOUGLASS, ESQ., LEAD COUNSEL, of the DOUGLASS LAW GROUP 

with co-counsel Philip S. Burnham, II, Esq. interviewed by Channel 3 News

 

Brian Johnson, center, said Tuesday that Michael Senisch, far left, a paramedic who treated his wife with Reiki after she refused an invasive procedure, was ‘railroaded’ when he was fired by AtlantiCare. Attorneys Michelle Douglass, second from left, and Philip Burnham, far right, represented Michael Senisch in a lawsuit against Atlanticare that lasted 2.5 weeks in Atlantic County State Superior Court .

 
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