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Sort by date 16,394 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- Toxic Herbicide Paraquat Lawsuit Claims and Risk of Parkinson’s Disease
Jul-15-22 Paraquat is a commercial herbicide widely used in the United States. Farmers have had access to it since 1962, and it is known as "gramoxone" in the country. It is used to control and kill weeds in cotton, potato, sugarcane, soybean, and vegetable varieties. This herbicide contains extremely toxic properties, which can be fatal to humans if consu... - California Rest Break Law – Then and Now
Jul-19-22 Los Angeles, CA While the term “coffee break” didn’t show up until the 1950s, two U.S. companies around the turn of the century offered midmorning and midafternoon breaks but their employees had to provide the coffee and they didn’t get a break time to enjoy it. Fast forward to May 2022: Meal and rest period premiums are now “... - Google Resolves Gender Discrimination Lawsuit
Jul-12-22 San Francisco, CA A pay equity California labor class action lawsuit filed in 2017 accusingCalifornia Google of underpaying women has been resolved: the tech giant will settle for $118 million, which involves over 15,000 women employed in California. The Ellis v. Google LLC complaint was initially filed by three female and former employees (a fourth... - Former Tesla Employee Rejects $15 million Settlement
Jul-8-22 Fremont, CA A federal jury in San Francisco last October agreed with plaintiff Owen Diaz that Tesla had created a hostile environment and discriminated against the former worker—who is black -- at its Fremont factory. Tesla was ordered to pay $137 million in the California labor lawsuit but a U.S. District Judge reduced the amount to $15 million. ... - The Big Story of UBS Whistleblower Lawsuit
Jul-7-22 New York, NY After nearly seven years in court, Trevor Murray prevailed in his whistleblower lawsuit against UBS Securities, his former employer. The latest flurry of activity is an after-the-fact attempt by UBS’s attorneys to reduce the firm’s financial liability. No harm, no foul. It’s simply what diligent lawyers try to do. ... - Can my Employer Cut my Health Benefits after I Retire?
Jul-6-22 Rochester, NY Vollmer v. Xerox Corp. , an ERISA lawsuit pending in the Western District of New York, raises a question that weighs heavily on the minds of many retirees. Can an employer offer a valuable incentive to encourage workers to retire and then unilaterally change the deal after the employee is out the door? The latest turn in this... - Increased Emergency Room Charges Loom for Patients at Critical Access Hospitals
Jul-5-22 Clear Lake, CA On April 8, the DC Circuit Court, which has jurisdiction over Medicare cases, held that Medicare need not reimburse St. Helena Clear Lake Hospital for the cost of maintaining nonemergency room specialists on call. Without Medicare reimbursement, the cost of maintaining these doctors on call will ultimately be passed along to... - Amazon Faces Class Action for Not Covering COVID Work-From-Home Expenses
Jun-30-22 Santa Cruz, CA A federal judge ruled last month that an Amazon employee can go ahead with a class action lawsuit seeking to recoup expenses while working from home during the COVID pandemic. Although California labor law requires employers to reimburse employees for all work-related expenses, Amazon argued that the government told workers to stay home. T... - Rechazo de Discapacidad - Abogado Especializado en Casos de Discapacidad contra UnumProvident
En conciliaciones recientes, UnumProvident acordó reconsiderar aproximadamente 200.000 reclamos por discapacidad anteriormente rechazados. El grupo de empresas de UnumProvident, sometido a investigación y presión por parte del Departamento de Trabajo (DOL), se ve obligado a ofrecer una re-evaluación de los reclamos rechazados o te... - California Attorney General Supports Washington State’s Ruling that GEO owes Detainees Minimum Wages
Jun-28-22 Santa Clara, CA California's attorney general has taken the lead in supporting Washington State’s decision to enforce minimum wage laws , which includes GEO, a private prison company that, since at least 2005, has paid thousands of detainee workers $1 per day for labor that is necessary to keep its facility operational. The private prison compan... - Covid Long-Haulers and Denied Disability
Jun-24-22 Santa Clara, CA If you are a COVID 19 long-hauler and your disability claim has been denied, don’t give up – don’t accept excuses from your insurer. The medical and legal community, state and federal governments (including the CDC) and a recent global survey recognize Long COVID as a disability and insurers will increasingly find it dif... - Does Workers Compensation Cover Heart Attack?
Jun-23-22 Santa Clara, CA Many Americans, particularly those with heart conditions, have good reason to ask whether they are eligible for Worker’s Compensation if they suffer a heart attack at work. Heart attacks are normally covered by state workers’ compensation laws but there are often many factors involved and you may wonder if a heart attack or st... - Whistleblower Outed Abbott Labs Two Years Before FDA Closed Sturgis Plant
Jun-20-22 Sturgis, MI Evidence of contaminated baby formula sounds like it should have been an “all-hands-on-deck” emergency for Abbott Laboratories and the Food and Drug Administration. Instead, it took the FDA nearly two years to send inspectors to the Sturgis, Michigan plant, where they found “shocking” conditions. By then two babies... - Dell found Liable for Transgender Discrimination
Jun-22-22 New York, NY An arbitrator found that Dell Technologies discriminated against 61-year-old Cicilia Gilbert, a transgender employee by firing her during her gender transition, said Gilbert’s labor law attorney. According to Cicilia Gilbert’s lawsuit, the tech giant terminated her in the middle of her transition and a co-worker advised her not t... - Two men retaliated against for reporting sexual and racial harassment awarded $460 million
Jun-14-22 Los Angeles, CA Two former SoCal Edison employees who said they suffered retaliation at the Southern California utility after reporting sexual and racial harassment have been awarded more than $460 million by a Los Angeles County jury. Both punitive and compensatory awards have made history – the former is more than double of any previous employment... - Equinox Employees Go Ahead with Three Class Actions
Jun-13-22 Los Angeles, CA Over 9,000 Equinox employees, including personal trainers and group fitness instructors, have been given the green light by a California federal judge to have their wage claims and other California labor laws resolved by three class actions rather than individually. California federal judge William H. Orrick certified three class actio... - Parches de Malla para Reparación de Hernia Composix de Kugel
La Administración de Alimentos y Drogas estadounidense, junto con Davol, Inc., subsidiaria de C.R. Bard, Inc., han retirado del mercado los parches de malla Composix Kugel de Bard, indicados para la reparación de hernia ventral, provocadas por el adelgazamiento o estiramiento del tejido cicatrizal que se forma luego de una cirugía de her... - Abbott Laboratories Investigated by FDA who is Investigated by Lawmakers
Jun-9-22 Sturgis, MI The FDA began to investigate the Abbott baby formula plant on February 17th, almost two weeks after Stephen’s son died, allegedly from exposure to Cronobacter sakazakii – a bacteria found at Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s facility in Sturgis, Michigan. “My son passed away on February 4th 2022 and was four days shy of bein... - Biden Administration and U.S. Solicitor General side with Airline Employee Rest and Meal breaks
Jun-6-22 Santa Clara, CA The Ninth Circuit decision ordering Virgin America to follow California’s meal and rest break law stands, and it’s backed by the Biden Administration. The U.S. solicitor general told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal regulations don't preempt the Golden State’s law. For the past several months Virgin Americ... - ERISA Lawsuit Alleges that ESOP Fiduciaries Cheated Participants
May-31-22 Chicago, IL Participants in the West Monroe Partners Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) filed a class action ERISA lawsuit claiming that the ESOP’s fiduciaries and the Trustee shortchanged them of the value of the company’s stock when West Monroe sold half the company to an outside investor. At its most elemental, the scheme described i...