This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Legal
Brooks sues hospital
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 December 2009
Country & Western man Garth Brooks is suing a hospital in Oklahoma in a bid to get a $500,000 donation back after the medical facility failed to fulfil a promise to name a new wing of their building after his mother. I think Brooks donated the cash to the Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon during a fund raising initiative to help pay for a $27 million extension programme. The problem arose because, in the end, the particular extension that was to be named in honour of Colleen Brooks was never built.
Brooks’ lawsuit says he has been trying to reach a settlement with the hospital regarding his 2005 donation and their naming pledge for two years. The hospital are yet to respond to the lawsuit. Slackers, they’re probably off saving lives or something inane like that.
