By Doug Cunningham

Deborah Shank is a former Wal-Mart worker seriously injured in an auto crash who needs constant continuing care for brain damage. Jim Shank says when his wife won a suit for a trust fund to pay for her future medical needs, Wal-Mart sued her to recover the more than $474,000 that Wal-Mart’s employee health insurance had paid.

[Shank]: “Just to show the greed and arrogance of the company, they locked up the money - they got a judgment to lock up the money before they even won the settlement. They put a freeze on the fund so I couldn't spend any of it. They just wanted to make sure that there was still as much there as they could get. To me that was pretty low because we still had bills to pay. But they didn't care. They wanted to lock up that money so they could get what all we had."

Wal-Mart Watch has set up a Deborah Shank fund at Bank of America to help the family pay for her medical care. Shank says Wal-Mart’s greedy and heartless action will cause Deborah to suffer. Shank says $474,000 is nothing to Wal-Mart’s ultra wealthy owners.

[Shank2]: “I think it was low to begin with. I mean, they didn't even come after it right away. it took 'em three years to file. It couldn't be the money, it had to be the principle. Because they could contribute that amount of money to the fund in a matter of seconds."