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Florida property owners and operators have a duty to ensure their premises are safe, free from hazards and, where applicable, properly secured. Failure to do so can result in devastating injuries for the people who visit or live on certain premises. When a person is injured while visiting a Florida property, that person may be eligible to file a lawsuit to... - Advice from Denied Claimant: Get an Experienced Oklahoma SSDI Lawyer
Dec-30-11 Tulsa, OK Marsha knows how important an experienced social security attorney can be to help file an Oklahoma SSDI claim. "I was denied help by the people at the social security administration because I didn't do things correctly with filing," says Marsha. Marsha (not her real name) is just one year away from retirement—she is 64 years old. Sh... - Oklahoma SSDI Statistics: Apply with an Attorney at Your Side
Nov-23-11 Tulsa, OK Given that the number of people who apply for social security benefits and are initially denied is increasing, it makes sense to have an experienced SSDI attorney help with your application. More than 60 percent of Oklahoma residents who apply for Oklahoma SSDI are denied benefits at the first stage of the application process. And taking i... - Costco Settles Excessive Fee ERISA Lawsuit for $5.1 Million
Aug-29-22 Green Bay, WI The Eastern District of Wisconsin has approved a $5.1 million settlement in Soulek v. Costco Wholesale Corporation . The settlement brings to an end another ERISA lawsuit , which alleged that plan fiduciaries failed to manage employee retirement funds prudently, as required by ERISA. Former participants and current participants w... - US Airways Plane Grounded After Hole Discovered in Fuselage
Mar-29-11 Charlotte, NC A pilot doing a pre-flight inspection to his commercial aircraft discovered a small hole in the exterior fuselage of the plane, CNN reported late yesterday. The US Airways 737-400 was loading for a flight when the pilot noticed the breach in the plane's fuselage, and alerted authorities. The plane was immediately grounded and taken o... - Unum Still in Denial as Unum Lawsuits Continue to be Filed
May-2-14 Houston, TX Despite the fact that federal government officials accused Unum Life Insurance Company of America of deliberately denying valid claims as a business strategy and fining them millions of dollars, Unum’s bad faith tactics carry on. A Texas woman filed a Unum lawsuit last month against the giant health insurer alleging she was denied... - $16M Settlement Reached in ADT Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Cruz, CA: A $16 million settlement has received preliminary approval potentially ending a data breach class action lawsuit pending against home security company ADT. According to the lawsuit, ADT was negligent in securing its customers’ data, leaving it vulnerable to hacking. This settlement resolves claims brought in five separate ADT... - Coca-Cola Bottler to Settle ERISA lawsuit for $3.5 Million
Mar-21-22 Charlotte, NC Large independent bottler, Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc., has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a class-action breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit that could have involved thousands of plan participants. The ERISA lawsuit was originally brought in 2020 by two participants in the Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. 401k Plan. Cheyenne Jones v. Coc... - A Tale of Two Contracts
Oct-14-08 Hollywood, CA Like any grade-school promise, commercial contracts are just that—a legal pledge, or a guarantee that a promised service will be carried out. A commercial contact is a covenant, and when it is breached commercial contract law comes into play. Sometimes those breaches can make for salacious headlines, especially when well-known celebrit... - Aetna to Pay $17M in HIV Data Theft Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Cruz, CA: A $17,161,200 settlement, affecting some 12,000 insurance beneficiaries, has been reached in a data theft class action lawsuit against Aetna. The plaintiffs allege that Aetna, through their negligence, exposed private information on clients’ HIV status. The complaint, filed six months after initial reports of the data breach... - Whistleblower: "They took away my license"
Dec-14-07 Falls Church, VA You'd think that following your employer's rules would be the right thing to do. Bill Li found out otherwise. Li (not his real name pending possible legal action) had worked since 2002 as a software engineer for a major defense contractor in the Washington, DC area. Until he became a whistleblower. In his work as a security architect on... - Potential H&M Class Action Lawsuit Over Unpaid Security Bag Checks
Jun-7-18 San Jose, CA: A former H&M employee, Ser Lao, has sued fashion retailer H&M in federal court for allegedly failing to provide employees with correctly itemized wage statements, and failing to pay employees minimum wage, overtime, and premium pay for missed meal and rest periods. Lao’s California unpaid wages lawsuit also alleges that H&M violated Cali... - UCLA and CVS Report Data Breaches
Jul-17-15 Los Angeles, CA Two large data breaches have been reported today, one by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health System and the other by CVS Photo. The UCLA data breach took place as far back as September 2014, according to UCLA and may have compromised personal information of some 4.5 million people. They said they detected suspicious acti... - Hacks, Embezzlements, and 401(k) Mismanagement – What You Can Do to Protect Your Retirement Nest Egg
Nov-17-18 Washington, DC When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton reportedly replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” Now, however, roughly $5 trillion, or a fifth of all U.S. retirement assets, sit in 401(k) accounts . Today’s Willie Suttons are there, too, as recent ERISA lawsuits and criminal prosecutions confirm. Don&rsqu... - 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... - Converse Inc. Settles $450K Wage-and-Hour Lawsuit Settlement
Sep-13-22 Santa Clara, CA Converse Inc. has reached a settlement for $450,000. The California wage-and-hour class action lawsuit brought by Andres Campos claiming the largest manufacturer of athletic footwear in the U.S. didn’t pay its workers at two of their California warehouse facilities for all of the hours that they worked. Campos, a non-exempt... - Check 'N Go to pay $220,000 settlement in personal information lawsuit.
Dallas, TX: (May-09-08) Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott brought charges against Check 'n Go, alleging that the business disposed of sensitive customer information in publicly accessible dumpsters. The federal office stated that the records disposed by the company included financial records and bank statements that contained names, addresses, Social Se... - Will Idaho Long-Term Denied Disability Improve or Suffer from Social Security Woes?
Jul-30-14 Washington, DC The state of Idaho is not alone as it relates to Aetna and Idaho long term denied disability lawsuits . A denied disability lawsuit against Aetna Life Insurance Co. in another state that was discharged following a decision by the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals resulted in the loss of LTD benefits for the insured. According to court... - McDonald’s the Latest Corporation to Face California Overtime Lawsuit
Mar-21-14 Los Angeles, CA McDonald’s is the latest large corporation to face a California unpaid overtime lawsuit. Although lawsuits against some corporations allege employees are denied overtime pay due to security measures, in the case of McDonald’s, the lawsuits allege among other things that employees are not properly paid for work done during ov... - MetLife to Settle ERISA Lawsuit for $4.5 Million
Dec-15-23 New York, NY On November 20 MetLife Group and a group of participants in the MetLife 401(k) Plan agreed to settle an ERISA breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit for $4.5 million. In their amended class-action complaint , plan participants accused plan fiduciaries of failing to act solely in the interest of plan participants and beneficiaries by including pro...