Hospital Must Pay Garth Brooks $1 Million for Breach of Contract
Really no proud side for this one I would say. Garth Brooks donated $500,000 to an Oklahoma hospital in which he expected them to name a wing after his mother. Apparently they had a verbal agreement in which the hospital would build a new women’s wing and then name it after his mother. They didn’t.
Brooks took them to court and was awarded his $500,000 donation back as well as $500,000 in punitive damages by the jury.
During the trial, Brooks testified that he thought he had a solid agreement with Moore. Brooks said the hospital president initially suggested putting his mother’s name on an intensive care unit, and when Brooks said that wouldn’t fit her image, Moore suggested a women’s center.
“I jumped all over it,” Brooks told jurors in tearful testimony. “It’s my mom. My mom was pregnant as a teenager. She had a rough start. She wanted to help every kid out there.”
Hard to believe they couldn’t have come to some agreement without going to court. I mean come on. What hospital can afford to give back a $500K donation? Honestly, who would think a $500K donation was enough to build a new WOMEN’S CENTER for $500K? Stupid all around. Gonna have to use a folding patio table for the nurse’s station I guess now.
