A former employee of Special Touch, a home health care service located in Coney Island, NY, has sued her former employer for $400 million over allegations of sexual harassment. Janice Worthen-Caldwell says that her former boss, Steven Ostrovsky, had sex with, groped or harassed the majority of the female employees over a 15 year span.
Ostrovsky denies the claims as “just repeating idle office gossip,” according to one report, and his lawyer Richard Reibstein said, “These allegations of sexual harassment didn’t occur, or if they occurred, she is taking some act and blowing it out of proportion to make it sound a lot worse.” However, another former employee says she began a two-year affair with Ostrovsky in 1992 and ended it after finding out he was carrying on relationships with other women in the office.
This isn’t the first time that Ostrovsky or Special Touch has been in legal trouble. In 2005, the company entered into a $3 million settlement with then NY State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over failing to compensate workers with overtime pay.


