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  • Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Lawsuits Rising
    Feb-3-23 Camp Lejeune, NC Since the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 came into effect, the floodgates have opened for veterans to file Camp Lejeune contaminated water lawsuits , along with a trail of red tape. About 14,000 claims submitted by veterans, military family members and others injured by contaminants have already been filed since the Act came into eff...
  • Hospital Workers Reach $475K Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit Settlement
    Scranton, NJ: A preliminary settlement has been reached in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit pending against Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, its related facilities and some 600 workers. The employment lawsuit alleges the hospital failed to properly calculate overtime pay prior to a 2012 change in New Jersey state employment law. Under...
  • Qui Tam Whistleblower Lawsuit Goes After “Up Coding”
    Aug-28-17 Atlanta, GA: The Medical Center, Navicent Health (“Navicent”) has agreed to pay $2,549,742 to the United States and the State of Georgia to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act (FCA) and the Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act by submitting inflated bills for ambulance transportation. The qui tam whistleblower lawsu...
  • Ninth Circuit Upholds Flight Attendants’ Claims for Overtime, Rest and Meal Breaks
    Mar-17-21 San Francisco, CA On February 23, the Ninth Circuit largely upheld a District Court grant of summary judgment to flight attendants in their class action lawsuit against Virgin America. Bernstein v. Virgin America Inc. alleged that the airline had failed to pay minimum wage and overtime and permit meal and rest breaks, as required by California labor l...
  • ERISA Plan Violations Don't Always Generate Massive Headlines
    Aug-6-10 Boston, MA The potential for wrongdoing inside an ERISA plan , where workers take part in an employee savings plan, does not always culminate in massive headlines and millions of dollars. Sometimes it is the conduct of a smaller employer, who may own the company and also serves as the ERISA benefits fiduciary, taking liberties to try to get through the...
  • Ninth Circuit Sends "High-Tech Debt Trap" Lawsuit to Arbitration
    Feb-27-21 Los Angeles, CA  On February 19, the Ninth Circuit held that a borrower, who found herself in what she described as a “high-tech debt trap,” must arbitrate her claims against the lender, having waived her right to sue. Marggieh DeCarlo was trying to build credit but instead found herself entangled instead in a ruinous web of loan charg...
  • 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...
  • Ohio Says Opioid Epidemic Generated by Drug Companies
    Jun-10-17 Columbus, OH Fed up with a deadly and costly drug addiction epidemic Ohio has become the second state after Mississippi to launch a lawsuit against five major pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and market prescription opioids such as OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin. The Defendants named in the lawsuit are Johnson & Johnson (Janssen Pharm...
  • California Overtime Lawsuit Paused Pending Ruling by US Supreme Court
    May-22-17 San Francisco, CA: An overtime pay lawsuit filed a year ago March in a California federal court has been paused by a federal magistrate to allow for a ruling by the US Supreme Court. The ruling, on a separate case, could set precedence and determine whether, or not employees of SolarCity Corp. would be forced into arbitration to settle their claims. ...
  • 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...
  • Four Employers Cited for Massachusetts Labor Law Violations
    Feb-11-10 Boston, MA Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley—a Democrat who recently lost her bid to save the late Ted Kennedy's seat for her party—issued a statement on February 1 that outlined various Massachusetts employment law violations alleged against four Massachusetts meal delivery companies. The allegations centered on the misclassifi...
  • BP Oil Spill - Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Oil Spill Laws
    The BP oil spill that began on April 20, 2010, could prove to have devastating consequences not only for the environment but also for businesses located on or near the Gulf of Mexico. Furthermore, the BP Gulf oil spill has already had tragic consequences, with 11 men believed dead, following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. BP...
  • BP Oil Spill FAQ
    Who is affected by the BP Oil Spill? People who live on or near the Louisiana, Alabama and Florida beaches around the Gulf of Mexico, people whose income relies on the tourism industry in the Gulf of Mexico and people whose income relies on Gulf of Mexico, such as fishermen. Even if your income is not directly related to the Gulf of Mexico, yo...
  • 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...
  • Hoping for a Hassle-Free Hip Implant a Roll of the Dice
    Mar-7-17 Washington, DC: Much has been written in recent years about hip implant replacement failure and the perfect storm borne from an aging population (the leading edge of Baby Boomers are entering their retirement years), and a medical device manufacturing industry rushing new designs to market bereft of adequate real-world testing through a legal FDA looph...
  • 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...
  • Walmart Howls at California Labor Law Fines
    Dec-3-20 San Jose, CA  “This case is about Walmart’s practice of routinely violating the California Labor Code .” The first sentence of plaintiff’s’ brief to the Ninth Circuit in Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc. neatly sums up the workers’ argument. Walmart, on the other hand, argues that this is all very unfair,...
  • Auction Rate Lawsuit Launched Against Charles Schwab & Co.
    Aug-21-09 New York, NY The auction rate securities debacle of 2007 has made a return to the public conscience with the recent filing of an auction rate securities market lawsuit against Charles Schwab & Co. (Schwab) by the Office of the Attorney General for the State of New York. In his lawsuit, filed August 17th, New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo al...
  • California Office Manager Need Not Arbitrate PAGA Claim
    Nov-24-20 Santa Ana, CA On October 26, California's Fourth District appellate court ruled that Enedina Aguirre does not have to arbitrate a claim she made against Prudential Overall Supply under the California Private Attorneys General Act. The California labor lawsuit affirms, once more, that the mandatory arbitration agreements, which many employees must s...
  • Older Defendant to Younger Plaintiff: “You’re No Spring Chicken!”
    Dec-29-16 Santa Barbara, CA: Under California labor law , akin to generally-recognized statutes in force elsewhere, it remains unlawful to terminate an individual’s employment without just cause. In this California labor lawsuit, total damages exceeding a half million dollars were awarded to the plaintiff, resolving a complaint and accompanying circumstance...
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