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Jun-17-15 Los Angeles, CA As successor to Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, Tim Cook may be the face presented to the world when new products such as the Apple watch are released. But he’s also an employer too, and a number of employees have taken Cook and Apple Inc. to task over unpaid wages claims and off the clock work . The latter, according to an e-... - Playing the Trump Card in Commercial Contract Dispute
Jul-30-09 Camden, NV: A commercial contract dispute has erupted between a New York City developer and the current owners of the Trump Marina Casino Hotel in Atlantic City. The former is attempting to get back a $17 million deposit that Coastal Marina LLC/Coastal Development LLC had paid when it agreed last year to buy the property that carries the famous Trump na... - Nevada Employment Plaintiff Wins Appeal, Lawsuit Can Continue
Jun-12-15 Henderson, NV A former employee of an Applebee’s restaurant in Nevada who had her Nevada employment sexual harassment lawsuit tossed due to problems with the timing involved with the filing of her complaint will have her day in court after all, following the decision of an appellate panel. Last week the Ninth Circuit ruled that Maria Escobedo had... - Wyoming State Museum Manager Wrongful Termination Settlement
Program manager at the Wyoming State Museum, Marie Wilson-McKee claimed that her supervisors retaliated against her because she opposed giving back community artifacts that had been given to the museum. She was forced to resign in 2004 after being reassigned to a lower paying job that involved no work. Wilson-McKee filed a wrongful termination lawsuit a... - Calpine Corp. Breach of Energy Contract Settlement
Reading Municipal Light Co. filed a lawsuit against their former energy supplier for breach of contract. Calpine channeled electricity to the Reading distribution center at rates established in a 2002 contract that was scheduled to run through October 2007, but Calpine went bankrupt. Reading has 28,000 customers in Reading, North Reading, Wilmington, an... - Attorney Wants Phantom Fees Returned to Madoff Survivors
Jul-3-09 Miami, FL Lawyers at Dimond, Kaplan & Rothstein have seen a lot of hurt investors over the years—many of them victims of ponzi schemes less elaborate than the one Bernie Madoff ran, but ponzi schemes all the same. "The moral compass of people who commit those kinds of crimes is something that my partners and I will never understand," says Jeffrey Kapla... - QuadraMed� Corp. MedCath Contract Breach Settlement
MedCath Incorporated and QuadraMed were in a legal battle with one anther. In 2004, MedCath filed a breach of contract lawsuit against QuadraMed in relation to a software license and service agreement. The complaint alleged QuadraMed's software products failed to perform in accordance with a 2002 contract. The two companies have jointly reached an out o... - Supreme Court Agrees to Hear $500,000 Neck and Back Injury Settlement
May-22-15 The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case to determine whether a man must repay an insurance company for medical expenses it paid after he received a settlement from the drunk driver who injured him - even though his recovery was reduced after paying attorney’s fees and supporting himself and his child. Robert Montanile was seriously injured re... - Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Employees in ERISA Class Action
May-18-15 Washington, DC The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of employees who participated in their company’s retirement savings plans and who objected to the investment decisions made on their behalf, as decisions were deemed to negatively impact their savings, can move ahead with their ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) lawsuit. The lawsui... - Debt Collector Lawsuit by Feds Shuts Down Bogus Bill Collector
May-18-15 Buffalo, NY Recent events appear to have taken debt collector harassment to a new level, with bogus debt collectors calling and harassing seniors and other innocent consumers in the state of Florida, coercing them into making payments on debt they didn’t even owe. And in Buffalo, New York, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has taken... - Securities Fraud: When Your Securities Are Not Secure
Jun-12-09 Chicago, IL Although it has been approximately 6 months since Bernard Madoff's arrest sent shockwaves through the investment industry, the fallout from that arrest still continues. More lawsuits have been filed in the case, alleging securities fraud. People who invested in stocks and securities with Madoff are worried they may not get their money back. Mea... - Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company Bad Faith Settlement
A Judgment, which is ultimately expected to be worth over $6 Million dollars, was entered on Friday, March 17, 2006, in the case of David Jay v. Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company (nka Centre Life Insurance Company)("MCIC"), a subsidiary of Zurich Insurance, in the Stark County Court of Common Pleas, Stark County, Ohio (Case No. 2004 cv 00843) ... - Unscrupulous Debt Collectors Generate 88,300 Complaints a Year
May-13-15 Bad debt collectors have become a worsening problem in the lives of consumers. According to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s annual report: • 35 percent or 88,300 of consumer complaints in 2014 were about debt collection • 20 percent or 51,200 complaints were about mortgage collection the same year. Nebraska attorney Jeffrey Lapin has d... - When Antitrust Stifles a Move up the Ladder
Jun-5-09 Washington, DC When an employee of one company jumps ship and defects to a competitor, is such an event cause to suspect a breach of antitrust laws ? Most would agree that such practice is simply healthy competition. However, what happens when companies are alleged to collude NOT to hire each other's employees? Is that a violation? Antitrust policy is a c... - Lawsuit Filed Regarding Hydroxycut Supplements
May-25-09 Columbus, OH A class action lawsuit has been filed against the maker of Hydroxycut supplements following the Hydroxycut recall. The lawsuit alleges that the dietary supplements are linked to Hydroxycut liver damage. Meanwhile, as the news about the Hydroxycut side effects spreads, more people report that they believe they were affected by the supplements... - Rod Stewart Cancelled Concert Settlement (Mar-07-06)
The rock star was advanced $2 million to perform a New Year's concert at the Rio hotel casino in Las Vegas in 2000. Stewart cancelled the concert due to throat surgery but allegedly failed to repay his advance. Harrah's Entertainment filed a lawsuit against Stewart alleging breach of contract. A federal judge ordered Stewart to pay Harrah's a $3 million... - Dangerous Gas Pedal Revs Up Again
May-1-09 Houston, TX Thousands of owners of Ford Super Duty Pickup Trucks and Expedition sport utility vehicles will have a chance to make Ford replace the gas pedal in some 300,000 to 500,000 vehicles manufactured between 2001 and 2003, thanks to the relentlessness of attorney Grant Harvey and the firm of Gibbs & Bruns from Houston, Texas. A recent decision... - $15.1M Settlement Reached in Carpenters Pension Trust Fund Reduced Retirement Disability Payouts
Santa Clara, CA: A $15.1 million settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit brought against multi-employer benefits plan Carpenters Pension Trust Fund—Detroit and Vicinity and its trustees, over allegations they reduced disability retirement benefits to workers enrolled in the plans, in violation of their Employee Retirement Income Sec... - Surrogacy Company and Financial Agents Sued for Breach of Contract
Apr-30-09 Sherman Oaks, CA Dozens of would-be parents and the women who were acting as surrogate mothers in California have been left in the lurch after the company that made the arrangements and its financial holding company allegedly misappropriated thousands of dollars. Attorney Ted Penny, a Los Angeles litigator with expertise in consumer protection law, has la... - HSBC, Assurant Agree to Settle Force-Placed Insurance Class Action for $1.8 Million
Apr-16-15 Colorado Springs, CO A well-known national bank that is alleged to have accepted kickbacks from an insurance provider when placing lender insurance on uninsured or under-insured properties, agreed last week to pay $1.8 million to settle a Force-placed insurance lawsuit. As part of the settlement, HSBC Bank will return some 90 percent of the commissi...