Year: 2012

Posted December 19th, 2012. Fraudulent Promotion of Off-Label Use & Kickbacks for Aranesp Was Centerpiece of Five-Year Federal Investigation & Award For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] December 19, 2012, Washington, DC — Sanford Heisler, LLP, a leading public interest law firm, today announced a $762 million global qui tam settlement with Amgen, Inc. and the United States Department of Justice.…

Posted December 11th, 2012. For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027 (December 11, 2012, Nashville) – City Gear, LLC (formerly Shelmar Retail Partners, LLC), the urban clothing chain, has been withholding more than $25 million in overtime pay owed to at least 200 Store Managers and Assistant Managers throughout the Southern and Midwestern United States. That’s the accusation at the…

Posted November 5th, 2012. Ten Former and Current Mothers and Pregnant Women Cite Egregious Conditions For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (November 5, 2012, Newark, NJ) – Sanford Heisler, LLP, today added six additional female plaintiffs to the $100 million gender discrimination employment class action complaint the firm initially filed in July against New York-based Forest Laboratories, Inc., and…

Posted October 23rd, 2012. Complaint Details Unlawful Gender Discrimination Against Working MothersBy One of the Top Professional Sports Organizations in the U.S. For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (October 23, 2012 New York, NY) – Sanford Heisler, LLP, a leading national civil rights law firm, today filed a gender discrimination suit seeking $3 million on behalf of a Senior…

Posted January 25th, 2012. Plaintiff Sales Representatives and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation resolve class action wage and hour claims Company to resolve wage and hour claims with one-time payment of up to99 million dollars for eligible class members Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation remains committed to compensate all employees in accordance with US Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and applicable state laws East…

Posted July 18th, 2012. EEOC Orders Class Certification Dating to 1994 for African-AmericansDiscriminated Against on Basis of Race; 18 Years Believed Longest-Ever Period  For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos, , [email protected] (July 18, 2012, Washington, DC) – The decision was a long time coming, but appears to have been worth the wait. This month David Sanford, a partner and…

Posted July 6th, 2012. For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027,201-493-1027 (cell); or Jaime Baum, newsPRos, 201-493-1027. (July 6, 2012 New York, NY) – On MSLGroup’s website, the Company claims that U.S. District Court Judge Andrew L. Carter’s June 29, 2012 order granting conditional certification to the Company’s women VPs and SVPs “was a procedural ruling only and not unexpected”…

Posted July 6th, 2012. For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027,201-493-1027 (cell); or Jaime Baum, newsPRos, 201-493-1027. (July 6, 2012 New York, NY) – In a public statement yesterday on MSLGroup’s website, the Company falsely claimed that U.S. District Court Judge Andrew L. Carter’s June 29, 2012 order granting conditional certification “was a procedural ruling only and not unexpected” and…

Posted July 2nd, 2012. U.S.District Court Certifies Female Employees’ Equal Pay Act Class SuitAgainst French Advertising Giant, Publicis Groupe and MSLGroup For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos,201-493-1027, [email protected] (July 2, 2012, New York, NY) – On June 29, 2012, in da Silva Moore, et al. v. Publicis Groupe, et al., Civ. No. 11-CV-1279 (S.D.N.Y.), U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. granted…