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Sort by relevance 16,386 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Longshore Act and Truckers Workers’ Comp Coverage
May-18-22 Oakland, CA Whether or not trucking companies with operations on port property – such as the Port of Oakland and the Port of San Francisco – are subject to Longshore Act coverage is yet to be determined. For the most part, truckers have agreed not to be entitled to Longshore Act benefits, because their work is considered nonmaritime, b... - 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... - Plaintiffs Seek Recusal of Latest Judge in Home Depot ERISA Lawsuit
May-16-22 Atlanta, GA On April 15, plaintiffs in Pizarro v. The Home Depot asked U.S. District Judge Steven D. Grimberg to recuse himself because of his association with the Chamber of Commerce, which had filed an amicus curiae brief in support of The Home Depot in 2021. The $140 million class action ERISA lawsuit was assigned to Judge Grimberg on March 4 of t... - Family of Las Vegas man denied cancer treatment awarded $200M verdict in insurance bad faith lawsuit
May-11-22 Las Vegas, NV (April 26, 2022) A jury awarded $40 million in compensatory damages and $160 million in punitive damages to the family of a Las Vegas man who died after being wrongfully denied a specific type of cancer treatment. Sierra Health and Life, a UnitedHealthCare Company, denied Bill Eskew’s claim for proton beam therapy (PBT). Sandy Eskew, th... - Minor League Players “Chasing a Dream” Under Harsh Living Conditions
May-11-22 Santa Clara, CA If Major League Baseball and its teams have their way, minor leaguers will be prohibited from mentioning their purported poor living conditions at a California wage trial, arguing that the evidence is irrelevant and could unfairly sway jurors. Chasing the Dream Back in 2014, three minor league baseball players filed a class action i... - Alcoa Fights Retirees’ ERISA Lawsuit over Health Benefits Plan
May-10-22 Evansville, IN In December 2020, Alcoa USA Corp. retirees brought an ERISA lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana to block Alcoa’s announced plan to change the way in which it provided collectively bargained retiree health benefits. The changes at issue in Kaiser v. Alcoa USA Corp. (originally captioned Simpkins v. Alcoa USA Corp. ) became...