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Sort by date 16,482 pages found matching <a href=""></a>- 2018 Busy Year for HealthCare Whistleblowers
Jan-23-19 Washington, DC: Of more than $ 2.8 billion that the Department of Justice (DOJ)obtained in settlements and judgments from fraudsters in 2018, $2.5 billion involved the health care industry, and the largest recoveries came from drug and medical device manufacturers. And 2018 was a very good year for most all Whistleblowers (three whistleblower fraudsters... - Underground Economy Keeping California’s Field Enforcers Busy
Jan-30-19 San Diego, CA: The Labor Commissioner’s Office is cracking down on California’s underground economy. Daniel Yu, Assistant Chief with the Bureau of Field Enforcement is charged with making sure employers comply with California labor laws , and that every worker, including illegals, is entitled to full protection. The “underground economy” refers... - Employee 401(k) Lawsuit Claims GE Inflated Stock Value
Jan-15-19 Albany, NY On December 14, 2018, Adele Vargas filed a class action ERISA lawsuit against General Electric Company (“GE”) and Jeffrey Immelt, its former CEO. She alleges that GE improperly manipulated its earnings and inflated its stock price. As a retirement plan sponsor, it failed in its fiduciary duty to GE employees who invested in the comp... - Hewlett-Packard Enterprises Named in Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
Jan-7-19 Santa Clara, CA In late 2018, R. Ross and C. Rogus filed a class action California unpaid wages lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) that describes a pattern of gender-based pay discrimination. It’s hardly news, you think, that tech giants underpay women. But what may be most important about the lawsuit is the pervasiveness and typicali... - LTD Claimants Win Big as Ninth Circuit Trims “Abuse of Discretion” Standard
Jan-11-19 San Francisco, CA In one of the earliest decisions of 2019, the Ninth Circuit gave plaintiffs in long term denied disability lawsuits a new way to challenge benefit denial decisions. It may turn out to be significant. But to understand why, it is necessary to get down into the details of how courts apply the rules about whether or not to defer to... - Wife wonders whether Father-in-Law and Husband diagnosed with Cancer is associated with Monsanto’s Roundup
Jan-16-19 Atlanta, GA: “My husband and father-in-law were both diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and they both sprayed the backyard with Monsanto’s Roundup,” says Veronica. (Because studies have continually linked the herbicide to that type of cancer, it also referred to as 'Monsanto cancer' .) “My mother-in-law had a terrible reaction to poison ivy gr... - Unum Disability Insurance Claimant Wins Reinstatement of LTD Benefits
Jan-8-19 Santa Ana, CA On November 20, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California handed Pamela Fleming a resounding victory in her Unum disability insurance lawsuit. Unum had been paying her LTD benefits since 2005, after a serious and well-documented neck injury sustained in a car accident. A change in her treating physician and a br... - ER Charges: Underserved and Over-Charged thanks to Upcoding
Jan-10-19 Los Angeles, CA: When a nine-year old accidentally had gasoline splashed in her eyes, her mother immediately drove her to the closest hospital emergency room. They were directed to the eyewash station but it was so dirty they couldn’t use it, so Brianna’s mom rinsed her daughter’s eyes at a regular sink. Turns out, they would have been b... - The New Year Rings in New Sexual Harassment Rules, Mainly Triggered by #MeTooMovement
Jan-4-19 Sacramento, CA: The #MeTooMovement has resulted in a number of new laws with the goal to make it easier for employees to report sexual harassment and for employers to have a voice in investigations concerning this and other California labor law violations. Most of these laws took effect January 1, and employers would be wise to become familiar with them... - SEI Investments Company Accused of Self-Dealing in 401(k) Mismanagement Lawsuit
Dec-12-18 Philadelphia, PA On September 28, 2018, Gordon Stevens filed a class action ERISA lawsuit claiming that his employer, SEI Investments Company, forced him and other SEI 401(k) plan participants into retirement investments that made money for the company, regardless of the employees’ own best interests. These investment manager self-dealing law... - Trustmark National Bank Latest Defendant in Excessive Overdraft Fees Lawsuit
Dec-21-18 Jackson, MS In the waning days of December 2018, Cryesha McDonald and Chantal Lewis filed an excessive overdraft fees lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The lawsuit alleges that Trustmark National Bank assessed overdraft fees in violation of its contractual agreements with customers. Like similar lawsuits brought... - “Face of Channel 4 News” Fired -- Too Old to be Female on TV
Dec-13-18 Nashville, TN News anchor Demetria Kalodimos, who had repeatedly been named the Best Local Reporter and Best Local TV News Personality by the readers of the Nashville Scene, was abruptly fired by WSMV, Channel 4 on December 4, 2017. On November 27, 2018, she filed an employment lawsuit in the Middle District of Tennessee, alleging violations of the f... - California Unpaid Wages Lawsuit Goes to Jail
Dec-7-18 San Diego, CA A year and a half ago, Sylvester Owino and Jonathan Gomez filed a California unpaid wages lawsuit against CoreCivic, a for-profit business that runs private prisons, including the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. The lawsuit alleges violations of federal human trafficking laws and California labor laws relating to minimum wage,... - Jury Awards $25.6 Million in Bad Faith Insurance Lawsuit
Dec-17-18 Oklahoma City, OK In November 2018, a jury awarded nearly $25.6 million to the family of a Oranna Cunningham, a woman who was diagnosed with advanced nasopharyngeal cancer. Her insurer, Aetna, refused to cover the cost of the proton beam therapy recommended by her physician, claiming that it was “experimental or investigational.” After her dea... - New Reuters Report Reveals J&J knew its Talcum Powder link to Asbestos and Cancer
Dec-15-18 Los Angeles, CA: After reviewing documents and testimony from 1971 to the early 2000s, a new report by Reuters determined that Johnson & Johnson’s executives, mine managers, doctors and lawyers were aware the company's raw talc and finished powders sometimes tested positive for small amounts of asbestos. This report reflects many Johnson... - Amputees Prosethetics Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Amputees in many states may not have the cost of their new, permanent limbs covered by their insurance plans. This has sparked a nationwide campaign by amputees and the prosthetics industry to get Congress and the individual states to demand more comprehensive coverage for prosthetics, especially those that are now enhanced with microprocessor technology. La... - Employers can be Liable for California Wage-Hour Violations
Dec-10-18 Sacramento, CA: Can an individual be held liable for alleged California wage law violations? Yes, according to the California Court of Appeal, which holds that they can be held personally liable for civil penalties, regardless of whether they were the employer or if the employer is a limited liability entity. Further, the Court concluded that private... - Unum: the Gift of Giving and Taking Away
Dec-6-18 Chicago, IL: Yet another lawsuit was filed in November against First Unum for allegedly denying long-term disability benefits. In the same month, Unum announced to the media that it had donated $300,000 to a high-school girls’ leadership program. Along with this charitable announcement, policy holders who have been denied disability benefits or wron... - Discrimination Laws Upheld with Teva Claim
Dec-6-18 Santa Clara, CA: Pharmaceutical giant Teva was ordered by an eight-person jury last month to pay $6.3 million to a former manager who filed a discrimination employment lawsuit against the Israeli company. The eight-person jury in Philadelphia federal court came to a unanimous decision after a one-week trial: they concluded that former manager Stephen... - Tennessee Drywall Workers Win Unpaid Overtime in DOL Settlement
Nov-21-18 Hermitage, TN On October 19, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that Tennessee contractor, Vasquez Drywall, had agreed to pay $103,300 in back wages to workers misclassified as independent contractors and a $2,424 civil penalty. Employment misclassification is rampant in the construction industry in Tennessee and throughout the country. Th...