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  • California FedEx Driver’s Misclassification Lawsuit Settles
    Jan-6-23 Santa Clara, CA A former linehaul driver for FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. brought a California misclassification lawsuit against FedEx – the poster child for independent contractor misclassification claims. A California federal judge last November agreed to end the lawsuit just days after the driver's proposed class action was denied. A...
  • Camp Lejeune Denied Claims Must Be Resubmitted Under New Act – AKA more Red Tape
    Jan-4-23 Wilmington, NC All previously denied Camp Lejeune injury claims need to be resubmitted, according to the new Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022. But many plaintiffs argue that they shouldn’t have to go through the same administrative process again. Just days after the Act went into effect, many Camp Lejeune injury lawsuits were filed by plaintiffs...
  • The Impact of IOLTA Funds
    Jan-3-23 Santa Clara, CA The Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts, or IOLTA, enables lawyers to raise funds with charitable intent. Although the charitable purpose can vary, it is frequently used as a way to help provide civil legal services. This isn’t a typical bank account.  Several federal banking changes passed in Congress back in 1980, and al...
  • Mortgage Loan Officers Entitled to Rest Periods
    Jan-3-23 San Francisco, CA A California federal judge ruled that PNC Bank violated the California labor code by failing to pay mortgage loan officers for rest breaks.  The complaint stems from an unpaid rest break lawsuit that was filed back in 2018. PNC Lawsuit Time Frame Aug 2018:  Two months after plaintiff Tanseer Kazi filed the lawsuit, P...
  • Filing a Bair Hugger Lawsuit: Attorney Weighs In
    Jan-3-23 Houston, TX  Gabriel Assaad has filed lawsuits against 3M and Arizant Healthcare (3M acquired Arizant in 2010) on behalf of patients who developed periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) after undergoing joint replacement surgery where a Bair Hugger warming blanket was used. If you had a knee or hip replacement surgery, suffered an infection and requir...
  • Jury Awards Idaho Man $7.96 Million in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
    Dec-29-22 Boise, ID Shane Ackerschott hurt his back lifting freight at work, but that wasn’t what put him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. An Idaho jury found that Ackerschcott became paralyzed from the waist down because of medical malpractice at the urgent care clinic he and his wife, Rebecca, visited. The jury in Ackerschott v. Mountain View Hos...
  • Asbestos Mesothelioma Victims Stymied by Bestwall LLC Bankruptcy
    Dec-27-22 Richmond, VA On December 6, asbestos mesothelioma claimants asked a Fourth Circuit panel for permission to pursue their claims against Georgia-Pacific, the corporate parent of Bestwall LLC, which has filed for Chapter11 bankruptcy protection. The fundamental question in Bestwall LLC et al. v. Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants is whether the comp...
  • L3 Technologies ERISA Lawsuit Seeks Class Action Status
    Dec-28-22 Orlando, FL On November 28, a group of former employees for defense contractor L3Harris Technologies Inc. asked the District Court for the Middle District of Florida to grant class action status to their ERISA lawsuit . Stengl v. L3Harris Technologies Inc. alleges that the fiduciaries of L3 Technologies Master Savings Plan, (the “Master Plan&rdq...
  • California Files PFAS/PFOA Lawsuit against 3M Company
    Dec-26-22 Alameda, CA  On November 10, the state of California filed a perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS/PFOA) lawsuit in California Superior Court against 3M Co. and more than a dozen other defendants involved in the manufacture and distribution of these toxic “forever chemicals.” California v. 3M Company  alleges that these substanc...
  • Judge Gives Green Light to Pepsi and Kronos Settlement
    Dec-21-22 New York, NY A New York federal judge in early December has granted preliminary approval of a $12.75 million settlement. The PepsiCo class action lawsuit alleges that Pepsi workers were not paid overtime and wages weren't timely or fully compensated for all hours worked during an outage with their Kronos timekeeping system. Along with Pepsi, the work...
  • Car Wash Employers Don’t Come Clean
    Dec-15-22 Los Angeles, CA Wage theft is an ongoing California labor law violation , and it often happens at the car wash. Sadly, most victims are the Golden State’s most vulnerable workers: they are low wage earners, have the least education and fewest legal protections. Often, they are immigrants and people of color. Generally no one goes to jail for the the...
  • CPAP Recall Gone Wrong Nearing Settlement with Philips and Justice Department
    Dec-14-22 Santa Clara, CA More than a year after Philips Respironics announced its CPAP recall , which led to the U.S. Justice Department investigating possible criminal violations, The New York Times reported that Philips and government attorneys are negotiating a settlement, which would include Philips to implement a plan that would prevent another product...
  • DOL Files Unpaid Wages Lawsuit on Behalf of Home Healthcare Workers
    Dec-13-22 Washington, DC On July 25, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit on behalf of 25 home healthcare workers employed by Getch, Inc. and its owner Gregory B. Getchell. The unpaid wages lawsuit seeks to recover $75,101 in overtime pay and to enjoin the employer from a pattern repeated violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Similar laws...
  • Yale University Pension Plan Lawsuit Heading to Jury Trial
    Dec-12-22 Hartford, CT  On October 21, 2022, the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut held  that participants in the Yale University Retirement Account Plan will have an opportunity to present their allegations of financial mismanagement to a jury. The ERISA lawsuit alleges that plan administrators violated their ERISA fiduciary duty t...
  • Veterans Want Stay Lifted on 3M Earplug Hearing Loss Lawsuits
    Dec-9-22 Santa Clara, CA A group of veterans have filed a motion to allow hearing loss lawsuits to move forward. They want the stay on all 3M earplug lawsuits lifted, arguing that 3M is responsible for design flaws because they used the company’s earplugs after it acquired Aearo Technologies – which initially developed the Combat Arms Earplugs version...
  • YouTube’s $4.3M to Settle Moderator Trauma Lawsuit
    Dec-8-22 Oakland, CA A proposed California labor class action alleging YouTube failed to protect its content moderators from psychological trauma caused by constantly viewing violent and disturbing videos has reached a deal. The technology giant has agreed to pay $4.3M, according to a motion filed in California federal court. Content Moderators The plaintif...
  • California Labor Lawsuit Alleges SpaceX Employees Unlawfully Fired
    Dec-7-22 Santa Clara, CA Eight former SpaceX employees have filed California unfair-labor-practice charges with the  National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging that SpaceX after they wrote a letter to management asking them to publicly condemn Elon Musk’s “harmful” behavior on social media. Musk appears to have his own policy: Do as I...
  • North Carolina Sues 3M Co. for PFAS/PFOA Environmental Damage
    Dec-5-22 Wilmington, NC On November 4, 2022 North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein filed four separate per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) state court lawsuits in Mecklenburg, Wayne and Stanly Counties. This is in addition to federal Camp LeJeune toxic tort lawsuits that have been consolidated in the Eastern District...
  • Booz Allen Hamilton BlackRock Target Date Funds at Heart of New ERISA Lawsuit
    Dec-4-22 Richmond, VA On August 2, 2022, Michael Tullgren filed a class action ERISA lawsuit against Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. and fiduciaries of the company’s Capital Accumulation Plan in the Eastern District of Virginia. Tullgren v. Booz Allen Hamilton alleges that company violated its fiduciary duty under ERISA by including poorly performing BlackRock...
  • Twitter Layoffs Trigger Labor Lawsuits
    Nov-30-22 San Francisco, CA The richest man in the world wasted no time to “drastically reduce costs and bring in new revenue from the social media site,” by laying off 3,000 of Twitter’s 7,500 employees – 50 percent of the work force. After purchasing the company for $44 billion on October 27, a mass layoff began during the first week of Nov...
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