By David Hendee
World-Herald News Service
CHAPPELL, Neb. — Deuel County Deputy Mike Hutchinson’s fight to regain his county-provided health insurance continues.
County commissioners took no action Tuesday at their meeting in Chappell, Nebraska, on a request from Hutchinson that the county pay for the insurance while he continues to recover from four gunshot wounds suffered while serving an arrest warrant in December. The county dropped Hutchinson from its group plan May 31. The matter is now on the board’s agenda for its June 21 meeting.
“I’m really disappointed in guys I believed in,” Hutchinson said afterward. “I made a commitment to them and to the people of Deuel County and they didn’t stand by their commitment to me. They treated me like a hero, yet now I’m being penalized because I did my job. I was injured in the line of duty.”
Full Story: Deuel County commissioners take no action on wounded deputy’s lost health insurance