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Sort by date 16,385 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Kickback Scheme Spawns Humira Whistleblower Lawsuit and Investor Backlash
May-30-22 Wilmington, DE On May 17, an investor sued AbbVie, alleging that the manufacturer of Humira defrauded investors by permitting the company to engage in an illegal “kickback scheme” that caused the value of the stock to plummet. The shareholder derivative lawsuit arises from a number of whistleblower lawsuits , including one filed in Calif... - Matco Tools Settles California Misclassification Lawsuit for $15.8 Million
May-31-22 San Francisco, CA On April 29, the Northern District of California granted final approval to a $15.8 million settlement in a class action California labor lawsuit brought by 273 franchisees who claimed that Matco Tools classified them as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime, reimbursing expenses and providing accurate wage statements. Th... - Minor League Baseball players and MLB Settle “Starvation” Wages Lawsuit
Jun-1-22 San Francisco, CA Minor league baseball players won’t have their day in court involving a minimum wage complaint that was filed eight years ago. The California labor trial was slated for June 1 in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. The players reached a preliminary settlement with the commissioner’s office in a lawsuit filed back in 201... - Bacteria one main reason for Baby Formula Shortage
May-30-22 Sturgis, MI The Abbott plant, which had produced one-fourth of the nation’s infant formula , was shut down in February after “egregiously unsanitary” conditions were discovered at its Michigan plant – conditions that included bacteria inhabiting key production equipment. Soon after the tragic deaths of one infant from a bacteria... - Philips CPAP Machines – More Wrongful Death Lawsuits?
May-27-22 Santa Clara, CA With the FDA suspecting 124 deaths from recalled CPAP sleep apnea machines , more wrongful death lawsuits could be filed against Philips Respironics. Since Philips recalled millions of its CPAP, BiPAP and mechanical ventilators, the FDA has received more than 21,000 adverse health reports connected with the machines’ toxic foam. He... - Oman v. Delta Airlines is Done. Virgin America v. Bernstein Looms on the Horizon
May-20-22 Washington, DC On January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Delta Airline’s petition for certiorari, in which it sought review of the question of whether the Constitution’s Article I Commerce Clause and the federal Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) exempted airlines from California labor law’s wage and hour regulations. This left inta... - The Whistleblower and H&M Unused Gift Cards - $36 Million Settlement
May-23-22 New York, NY A whistleblower is getting a big payout after he filed a lawsuit under the New York False Claims Act, accusing H&M of keeping millions of dollars in unused funds from its gift cards. Rather than transferring unredeemed gift card balances to the Abandoned Property Fund as the law stipulates, H&M lied about an out-of-state company hand... - Bard v. Milanesi Good News for Hernia Mesh Victims
May-17-22 Pensacola, FL Lorna P., one of many hernia mesh victims, is hopeful that she will receive compensation after hearing that the jury in the second C.R. Bard bellwether trial awarded $255,000 to a man allegedly injured by C.R. Bard’s hernia mesh . Lorna (not her real name pending a lawsuit) had her first hernia mesh surgery in 2000, then another and... - Flowers Foods and its Drivers Settle for a Lotta Dough
May-19-22 Portland, ME Flowers Foods has been given the green light by a U.S. District judge to settle a unpaid wages class action lawsuit with its current and former distributors in Maine to the tune of $23 million. No wonder the cost of bread has risen. It can’t be blamed solely on supply shortages. The settlements stems from a lawsuit filed in 2015 tha...