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Jan-30-18 Macon, GA: It was a Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit in its most basic form: written in longhand by a convicted murderer and filed from prison initially without an attorney. That was in 2014. However, lest one assume that plaintiff Michael Tarver, an inmate at the Macon State Prison would face an uphill battle in his lawsuit, in the end Tarver would... - Yet Another Geico Overtime Lawsuit
Nov-7-23 Macon, GA A proposed, nationwide collective of Geico’s call center-based sales workers dating to October 2020 claims the insurer required its sales representatives to work several minutes daily before and after their regular shift without pay. The Geico overtime lawsuit demands all unpaid overtime wages accrued during the untracked time, plus liqui... - Monsanto In and Out of Roundup’s Weeds
Oct-28-23 St Louis, MO Monsanto had another Roundup lawsuit win on September 28 after two weeks of trial. However, it was back in the weeds October 20th after a Missouri jury awarded $1.25 million to a plaintiff, making it a first plaintiff win in Missouri and the first time outside of California verdicts of $80 million, $289 million and $2 billion in favor of pla... - California Nursing Home Overtime Settlement
Jan-5-21 Los Angeles, CA A California labor lawsuit claiming wage and labor violations has finally been agreed upon for $3 million. The Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), originally filed in 2015, sought to represent over 250 former and current nursing home workers employed by Five Star Quality Care Inc. The 2015 lawsuit, filed in San Bernardino County... - Court Order Means Potential Taxotere Plaintiffs Should Act ASAP
Oct-11-17 New Orleans, LA: On September 7, 2017, the judge overseeing the multidistrict Taxotere hair loss litigation (MDL) issued a pre-trial order that compels attorneys to submit information about all pending and anticipated Taxotere lawsuits. The goal is to bring as many plaintiffs as possible into any settlement reached. The deadline was ori... - Car Accident Victim Awarded $1.4 Million Settlement
Jan-1-12 Medford, OR It was anything but a Merry Christmas in 2010 for William Geary, as he lay in the hospital recovering from a horrific car crash that left him trapped in his vehicle for 90 minutes, severely injured, with the remains of a heavy transport-truck trailer on top of his flattened pickup truck. Last week, on the one-year anniversary of the car... - Oracle to Pay $35 Million in Workers Compensation Settlements
Nov-25-11 San Francisco, CA Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million in workers compensation settlements to more than 1,700 Bay Area employees who alleged that they were wrongfully denied overtime pay, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. According to the newspaper, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Steven Brick gave preliminary approval to a settlemen... - California Overtime Lawsuit Settles in Record Time for $5.95 Million
Aug-11-17 San Francisco, CA: A California overtime pay class action lawsuit will settle for $5.95 million following the granting of final approval by a California federal judge earlier this week. The settlement brings to a close a lawsuit brought by a class of service managers against Ecolab Inc., alleging violations against California overtime law. According... - Bayer to Cough Up Higher Settlement Price to Cover Future Litigation
Nov-10-20 Santa Clara, CA Bayer needs to cough up more cash to settle Monsanto Roundup current and future lawsuits. While its current legal bill covers most of the Roundup claims, future Roundup cancer lawsuits have not yet been settled. Numerous cases slated for trials in January and February 2020 have been postponed and U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria pres... - Lubbock National Bank to Settle ERISA Lawsuit for $2 Million
Nov-5-20 Raleigh, NC The Eastern District of North Carolina seems poised to approve a $2 million settlement that will end an ERISA lawsuit against Lubbock National Bank as trustee of the TBM Consulting Group, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan. It’s an unfortunately familiar story of a major shareholder/officer who unloads overpriced company stock on employ... - Overtime Settlements and Lawsuits, from Pennsylvania Health Care Therapists to California Caregivers
Jul-15-17 San Francisco, CA: Despite federal and state laws in place to ensure that heath care workers—from behavioral health professionals in Pennsylvania to in-home caregivers in California—are getting overtime compensation they are entitled to, employers are still misclassifying employees to avoid paying overtime. And despite a recent settlement... - Automakers Agree to Compensate Takata Airbag Recall Consumers
Jul-15-17 Miami, FL: Four auto manufacturers have agreed to compensate owners of vehicles with recalled Takata airbags in a proposed class action settlement worth $553 million. Plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit reached the settlement agreement on May 18, 2017 with Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW. The money is intended to reimburse current and former owners fo... - Operators of 14 Subway Restaurants: Sell or Shutdown
Oct-4-23 San Francisco, CA On the heels of a federal investigation into illegal child labor, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued the owners of 14 Subway franchises an ultimatum: Sell or Shut Down. Once the public and communities at those 14 locations know how John Michael Meza, his wife, Jessica L. Meza and their associat... - Court Greenlights Class Action Status for Home Depot 401k ERISA Lawsuit
Oct-22-20 Atlanta, GA On September 21, the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that an ERISA lawsuit brought by participants in the Home Depot FutureBuilder 401(k) Plan against plan fiduciaries could proceed as a class action lawsuit. Pizarro v. The Home Depot is particularly notable for the number of participant who may be affected &ndas... - Washington Mutual Settles Securities Lawsuit
Jul-8-11 Seattle, WA Washington Mutual has reportedly reached a settlement in the securities lawsuit filed against it by shareholders. The securities fraud settlement is reportedly the largest ever in Western Washington and joins the ranks as one of the largest class-action settlements to stem from the financial meltdown. Plaintiffs filed the securities fraud l... - "My Job Was to Terminate and Deny Claims," says Former Unum Claims Handler
Jun-7-11 West Newfield, ME "When I was transitioned to the Unum claims department, I thought my job was about giving policy holders quality service and paying their claims on time," says Linda Nee, a former UnumProvident, now known as Unum , employee. "But after two months in this position, my boss told me that I'd have to deny $270,000 in financial reserves and... - California Refinery Workers Clinch $4.4 Settlement in Rest Break Lawsuit
Sep-24-20 Los Angeles, CA On August 24, the District Court for the Central District of California gave final approval to a settlement under which ExxonMobil, PBF Energy Limited and Torrance Refining Company, LLC will pay a total of nearly $4.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit in which refinery workers claim that they were denied the paid rest breaks requir... - Poultry Processers to Pay $85m for Alleged Wage-Fixing
Aug-23-22 Santa Clara, CA Three poultry processors and a consulting firm have agreed to pay $85 million to plant workers who were affected by an alleged wage-fixing scheme, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced. Cargill, Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms (now Wayne-Sanderson Farms) were accused by the DOJ of suppressing worker pay at the plants and using decepti... - Baby Suffers Brain Injury in Accident, Settlement Reached
Mar-21-11 Vancouver, BC A brain injury lawsuit has been settled in Canada. And while the settlement will not bring back those whose lives were lost, or the brain function of a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury, the settlement will nonetheless bring some closure to an event as horrific, as it was tragic. It was in 2007 that wedding celebrations were... - Earnin Agrees to PayBack
Aug-30-20 Santa Clara, CA A proposed settlement by Earnin, an app-based pay advance service, would theoretically pay up to $12.5 million to consumers who claim they were misled by Earnin and were charged bank fees they weren’t aware of before signing on with the service. Earnin Lawsuits Unfortunately, Earnin users can wind up incurring hefty bank charg...