Posted December 12th, 2011. Medtronic Agrees To Pay $23.5m to Feds & Nearly $4m to Four Relators In Cardiac Rhythm Management Device False Claims Suits For more information, contact Jaime Baum, 201-493-1027, [email protected] (December 12, 2011, Washington, DC) Medtronic, Inc, one of the world’s largest medical device manufacturers, has agreed to a $23.5m settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice…
Posted October 13th, 2011. FORMER FEMALE EMPLOYEE SUES PETSMART & ITS MANAGER Complaint Details Hostile Work Environment, Sexual HarassmentWrongful Termination For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (October 13, 2011, Richmond, VA) – PetSmart, Inc., (NASDAQ: PETM)was barking up the wrong tree when it subjected its employee Audrey Urda to a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination,…
Posted October 3rd, 2011. Complaint Asserts Giant Telecom Misclassifies First-Level Managers in CT, Requires Them to Work Up to 80 Hours Weekly, But Pays Them No Overtime For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos, , [email protected] (October 3, 2011, Bridgeport, CT) – Does AT&T owe its First-Level “Managers” overtime pay when it requires them to work more than 40 hours…
Posted July 21st, 2011. Sanford Heisler has forced Big Pharma companies to focus on overtime issues. Sue ReisingerCorporate Counsel The 25-lawyer firm that’s casting such a long shadow is Sanford Heisler. Its first major win against a global drug giant came last July, when Sanford Heisler won the largest jury award ever—$250 million—in a sex discrimination case against New Jersey–based…
In an interview Thursday with OTC, Sanford Heisler partner David Sanford said he has no reason to hope for good news from the Court, especially given the Justices’ ruling earlier this month in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion—a case which precluded consumer class actions in favor of individual arbitrations. Though the Court granted certiorari to Wal-Mart on the only-a-lawyer-could-love-it question of…
Posted June 2nd, 2011. Accounting Giant KPMG LLP Faces $350 Million Gender Discrimination Class Action Class of Female Managers Seeks Damages, Changes in Pay & Promotion Policies For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027,201-493-1027, [email protected]; or Jaime Baum, newsPRos, 201-493-1027, [email protected] (June 2, 2011, New York, NY) – Although KPMG LLP – one of the “Big Four” accounting firms –…
By Luther Turmelle, North Bureau Chief BRIDGEPORT — A U.S. District Court judge has rebuffed attempts by AT&T to throw out a class action lawsuit by a group of the company’s Connecticut employees alleging violations of state and federal wage and hour provisions. Thursday’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall clears the way for a trial to…
A class action suit alleging that Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals discriminated against women employees has been expanded. Just days after the one year anniversary of winning a $250 million verdict for female sales representatives at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the law firm of Sanford Wittels & Heisler (SWH) recently filed a nearly identical class action on behalf of female sales representatives at Bayer…
Less than a year after wining a $250 million trial victory against Novartis for discriminating against nearly 6,000 female sales representatives, lawyers at Sanford Heisler filed similar class discrimination claims two months ago against a new defendant, Bayer. The allegations strongly mirrored those against Novartis, but Bayer could point to at least one big difference: The proposed Bayer class included…
In the memo, which was posted as a blog on Novartis\’s internal website and was seen by Dow Jones Newswires, Jimenez said the staff dismissals came after he had visited several local markets, where some senior staff failed to live up to the company\’s internal code of conduct. Jimenez, who took over as CEO last year from long-standing Daniel Vasella,…