Case Name: Beatrice L. Bergeron v. Travelers Insurance Company
Court: New Hampshire Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Hampshire
Decision Date: 1984-06-22
Citations: 125 N.H. 107
Docket Number: No. 84-017
Parties: Beatrice L. Bergeron v. Travelers Insurance Company
Judges: 
Reporter: New Hampshire Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 107–108

Head Matter:
Hillsborough
No. 84-017
Beatrice L. Bergeron v. Travelers Insurance Company
June 22,1984
James M. Winston, of Manchester, by brief and orally, for the plaintiff.
Wadleigh, Starr, Peters, Dunn & Chiesa, of Manchester (James C. Wheat on the brief and orally), for the defendant.

Opinion:
Memorandum Opinion
The sole issue in this interlocutory appeal from a ruling of the Superior Court (Pappagianis, J.) is whether an employee, alleging to have been wrongfully discharged from her employment after this court's decision in Monge v. Beebe Rubber Co., 114 N.H. 130, 316 A.2d 549 (1974), but prior to our decision in Howard v. Dorr Woolen Company, 120 N.H. 295, 414 A.2d 1273 (1980), has the burden of proving that the discharge violated public policy. In Howard we said that:
"We construe Monge to apply only to a situation where an employee is discharged because he performed an act that public policy would encourage, or refused to do that which public policy would condemn."
Id. at 297, 414 A.2d at 1274. This language clarified and construed Monge. It did not create a new rule of law or significantly depart from Monge, and, thus, is applicable to the instant case.
Remanded.