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  • DOL Charges TPA Embezzled ERISA Plan Assets
    Mar-18-24 Pittsburgh, PA On February 5, the Western District of Pennsylvania issued  a Temporary Restraining Order barring RiversEdge Advanced Retirement Systems, LLC and Paul Palguta, the company’s sole owner and president, from accessing the assets of various ERISA retirement plans . The Department of Labor has accused the third-party administrator of...
  • California Employment Lawyer Discusses Wage & Hour Complaints
    Mar-5-24 San Diego, CA If your employer has taken advantage of you, consider speaking to an experienced wage and hour attorney. Nathan Kased’s clients are diverse: from blue collar workers who haven’t been properly paid to managers and sales people misclassified as independent contractors. “Overtime is the biggest issue, and wrongful termination i...
  • California Drywall Company Slapped with Wage & Hour Lawsuit – Again.
    Mar-3-24 Riverside County, CA West Coast Drywall & Co is doing it again: underpaying its piece-rate field employees and instructing them to underreport their hours. The California drywall company settled a lawsuit for the same allegations in 2017, but just two years after the settlement, the company repeated the same California labor law violations. According...
  • PAGA To Face Critical Test on November 2024 Ballot
    Feb-20-24 Sacramento, CA  On November 5, 2024, Californians will choose whether to preserve the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in its present form or replace it with the proposed California Fair Pay and Employer Accountability Act (FPEAA). Since it became law in 2003, PAGA has been an important element of many California labor lawsuits , and is often un...
  • Another Option for Workers Who Cannot Save through an ERISA Retirement Plan
    Feb-8-24 San Francisco, CA In February 2022, the United States Supreme Court denied the petition for certiorari filed by the petitioner in Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association v. The California Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program (CalSavers) . The denial kept in place a decision  of the Ninth Circuit that permitted a California-sponsored and adminis...
  • Delta Slammed with Lawsuit over Personal Cellphone Use
    Feb-5-24 Los Angeles, CA Delta Air Lines employees required to use their personal cell phones and computers for work-related tasks without being reimbursed is a California labor law violation, according to a PAGA complaint filed by an aggrieved employee. In November 2023, a former Delta employee filed a seven-page PAGA lawsuit in the Superior Court of the Stat...
  • Two Popular California Bakeries Slammed with Wage Theft Lawsuits
    Feb-1-24 Los Angeles, CA Two famous bakeries, Firebrand Artisan Breads in the Bay Area, and Sweet Lady Jane in the L.A. area, are both accused of withholding the dough from their employees, and now face California wage theft lawsuits . Filed in Alameda County Superior Court under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, the lawsuit allows employees to see...
  • Johnson & Johnson to Pay $700 Million to Settle State AG Lawsuits
    Jan-23-24 Trenton, NJ Johnson & Johnson has reportedly agreed to pay $700 million to settle talcum powder lawsuits  brought by 42 states. These state lawsuits allege that the company wrongfully marketed a product that it either knew or had reason to know was dangerous to human health. This settlement affects only this subset of talcum powder lawsuits...
  • $120M awarded in Westchester Medical Center Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
    Jan-21-24 Westchester County, NY – A state Supreme Court jury last November awarded $120 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Westchester Medical Center. In 2018 the plaintiff was rushed to hospital and because doctors failed to diagnose a stroke, he suffered extensive brain damage. The hospital argued that brain damage had already occurred before...
  • Barge Worker Not Required to Arbitrate California Wage Claims
    Dec-13-23 San Francisco, CA  On November 24, the Ninth Circuit held that Frank Miles, a deck engineer responsible for marine vessel maintenance, was not required to arbitrate his wage claims against his employer. While the decision acknowledges a federal policy favoring the enforcement of arbitration agreements, it balances that policy against the principle th...
  • DuPont, Corteva and Chemours to Pay State of Ohio $110 million
    Dec-11-23 Washington County, OH The chemical manufacturers of “forever chemicals”, namely DuPont, Corteva and Chemours, have reached a $110 million settlement with the state of Ohio. The PFOA lawsuit was filed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, claiming that PFOA, the manmade chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, was released in the air and water from DuPont’s...
  • Amazon Retaliates against Women Demanding Fair Pay
    Dec-7-23 Seattle, WA In Wilmuth v. Amazon , three professional research team leaders filed a proposed class and collective lawsuit against Amazon.com, Inc. for its established practice of paying women less than men for similar work. It’s the usual gross, dreary, demeaning stuff that women deal with at work. But the Amazon researchers also claim that the co...
  • National Collegiate Athletic Association Class Action Lawsuit Going Forward
    Nov-13-23 Santa Clara, CA A California federal judge has given the green light for labor lawsuits accusing the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) of depriving U.S. college athletes of compensation for the commercial use of their “name, image and likeness” to proceed as an anti-trust class action. The plaintiffs, three college athletes, hav...
  • California Sues Meta Over Youth Marketing
    Oct-31-23 Oakland, CA A lawsuit filed in California claims that Meta's Instagram and Facebook have “profoundly altered the psychological and social realities of a generation of young Americans" by knowingly and deliberately designing features that addict young people to its platforms. The lawsuit, which is filed in 33 states, alleges that such featu...
  • Camp LeJeune Master and Short Form Complaint
    Oct-30-23 Santa Clara, CA To help hundreds and thousands of Camp LeJeune plaintiffs claiming contaminated water caused serious health issues, lawyers have filed a Master Complaint outlining and defining all their common allegations and claims. And to streamline litigation for bringing new Camp LeJeune lawsuits , plaintiffs can take some of these allegations and cla...
  • Customer Service Representatives Stiffed of Pre- and Post-Shift Wages
    Oct-23-23 Newark, NJ On September 22, Rusty Brittain and Richard Tounsel, two call center workers, filed a collective and class action unpaid wage lawsuit against their former employer. Brittain v. DialAmerica Marketing, Inc. alleges that DialAmerica had an established practice of failing to pay customer service representatives for all hours worked as req...
  • Construction Laborers Pension Plan Sues Investment Manager for ERISA Breach
    Oct-17-23 Los Angeles, CA On September 15, the Construction Laborers Pension Plan for Southern California and the Board of Trustees for that fund filed an ERISA lawsuit against Meketa Investment Group and Judy Chambers. The lawsuit  alleges that Meketa breached its fiduciary duty to the Pension Fund by advising it to invest $30 million in participants’...
  • Equinox $36 million settlement for California Wage and Hour Lawsuits
    Oct-16-23 Alameda, CA Equinox has agreed to pay $36 million to resolve two California labor lawsuits alleging the fitness company required more than 15,000 employees to perform pre-shift work without pay and to skip meal breaks. The settlement, which resolves California state and federal actions, covers those who worked for Equinox in California between April 3, 2...
  • Allianz Asset Management Settles ERISA Lawsuit for $7.5 Million
    Oct-3-23 Santa Ana, CA On August 18, Allianz Asset Management of America, LLC and the Investment Committee of the Allianz Asset Management of America 401(k) Savings and Retirement Plan agreed to settle a breach of fiduciary duty ERISA lawsuit brought by former participants in the plan. The $7.5 million payout will go to roughly 5,139 participants and beneficiarie...
  • Amazon Unpaid Wages During COVID Screenings Settled
    Sep-29-23 Santa Clara, CA An unpaid wages lawsuit filed by former Amazon warehouse employees in a California federal court has reached a settlement. The lawsuit, filed in February 2021, accused Amazon of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act and the California Labor Code when they were forced to undergo unpaid COVID-19 screenings before clocking in. They spent at...
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