When you’re on the winning side of the biggest gender discrimination verdict in history–last May’s $250 million punitive damages award in a class action against Novartis–word gets around. So when a half-dozen female employees of Bayer went looking for lawyers, it’s not a big surprise that they ended up at the offices of Sanford Heisler, where former Litigators of the…
Posted March 21st, 2011. Pharma Giant Calls Female Managers “Backstabbing,” “Indecisive” Complaint Details Systemic, Pervasive Company-wide Discrimination For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (March 21, 2011, New Jersey) – Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals was handed a pounding $100 million headache today that even its highly-publicized aspirin is unlikely to relieve. The law firm of Sanford Wittels & Heisler, LLP, filed…
Posted March 3rd, 2011. As it appeared in the Boston Globe Globe Staff A woman in the Boston office of Cigna Health Care Inc. is seeking $100 million in damages in a lawsuit that alleges that the health care provider systematically discriminates against women by fostering a hostile work environment and by denying women rightful salary increases. Specifically, the suit…
Posted March 3rd, 2011. Complaint Says Gender Discrimination Is Company’s Standard Operating ProcedureNot Less Than $100 Million in Damages and Nationwide Reforms Sought For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (March 3, 2011, Boston) – Gender discrimination in the form of a hostile work environment and differential treatment of males and females occurs company-wide at CIGNA Health Care Inc., according…
Posted March 3rd, 2011. As it appeared in BestWeek BOSTON March 03 (BestWire) — A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed by a female employee of Cigna Health Care, alleging discriminatory employment practices and seeking at least $100 million in damages. Filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, Bretta Karp, a long-time Cigna provider contracting manager, sued the company on…
Posted March 1st, 2011. Contact: Sadie Kliner or Jamie Moss 202-986-2600 or 201-493-1027 Amicus Brief Describes How Nondiscriminatory Policies and Critical Workplace Reforms Achieved through Class Actions Benefit Businesses WASHINGTON, DC – February 28, 2011 – On Tuesday, a group of business women and leading women’s organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the business benefits of…
Partner Kate Kimpel has co-authored a compelling amicus brief in the Wal-Mart discrimination suit – the largest civil rights class action in the nation’s history. The bellweather US Supreme Court case has far-reaching consequences for workers’ rights. Kimpel and her co-authors from the National Partnership for Women & Families argue that size of the plaintiff class should not be a…