Article published June 10, 2005
MANOR CARE UNIT
Ex-president sues over his termination
In a legal battle from the executive suite, one of Toledo's largest firms has been sued by a fired official who says he is owed nearly $500,000.
Steven Mandell, former president of Heartland Information Services Inc., a unit of Manor Care Inc., claimed in a Lucas County Common Pleas Court lawsuit that he was terminated from the Toledo medical-transcription firm without cause and is entitled to $393,000 in severance pay, $13,000 for vacation time, and a $50,000 bonus for 2004.
Mr. Mandell, of Ottawa Hills, and his attorney, John McHugh III, of Sylvania, would not comment on the case yesterday other than to say they are asking for a jury trial.
A spokesman for Manor Care, the nation's largest nursing-home operator, said the firm does not discuss issues in litigation.
The lawsuit says Mr. Mandell incorporated Heartland Medical Information Services Inc. in January, 1997, a firm that became Heartland Information Services, now a unit of Manor Care. In his latest employment agreement, dated in 2000, he was to get a base salary of $180,000, standard corporate benefits, and severance pay amounting to two years' salary plus cost-of-living increases, the suit contends.
Mr. Mandell, owner of a local company called Rawhide Software and a former partner in the Toledo law firm of Marshall & Melhorn, said in the suit that he received a letter in February telling him he would be fired in March and would not be permitted to return to his office.The former Bowling Green State University professor has written dozens of textbooks about computers and computer law.
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