Employment law and consumer protection, explained by the attorneys who litigate it. Straight answers on your rights at work and in the marketplace.
Personal Injury
One of the most difficult and delicate aspects of handling an auto accident claim is dealing with the dreaded insurance adjuster. Generally, within a few days of an accident you will be contacted by an adjuster from the responsible party’s insurance company attempting to settle the claim. Regardless of how friendly or sympathetic the insurance adjuster seems, beware…the adjuster is not […]
Employment Law
Last week was national Dog Bite Prevention Week and the U.S. Post Office is shining a spotlight on U.S. cities where mail carriers are most at-risk for getting bitten. Unfortunately, Los Angeles has received the dubious distinction of being the dog bite capital at #1 on the list. https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2013/pr13_052.htm Annually, dogs bite more than 4.7 million people, according to the Centers […]
Employment Law
Freda Willis, a 56 year-old former employee of The University of Pennsylvania Health System has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the organization, claiming that after 20 years of service she was fired because of her medical conditions. (2:11-cv-05294-JD) According to Willis, during the last several years of her employment as a call representative, she suffered from a number […]
Employment Law
Panda Express, a Chinese fast food restaurant with 1,547 locations throughout the United States must pay $150,000 to settle an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit on behalf of 3 female teenagers who were allegedly sexually harassed while working in a Kauai, Hawaii restaurant. According to the EEOC, a male kitchen supervisor, sexually harassed some of the female staff. The supervisor subjected the female […]
Consumer Rights
After a long day at work, the phone rings and your child answers it and says. “There is someone on the phone saying that you owe them money!” Annoyed, you grab the phone and on the other end is a debt collector demanding payment for a debt you do not owe, to a creditor you have never heard of. […]
Employment Law
Julie Su, the California Labor Commissioner along with Bonnie M. Dumanis the San Diego County District Attorney recently announced a grand jury indictment charging father and son team, David and Barry Dadon, owners of the State Street Grill with 21 felony counts in an ongoing payroll scheme that violated minimum wage laws and California theft laws. The Dadons have both been charged with Workers’ […]
Consumer Rights
In a recent Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) lawsuit heard in a Federal Court, plaintiff Heather Nelson alleged that debt collection agency, Santander Consumer USA called her cell phone 1,026 times and left 116 prerecorded messages over the course of a year. Nelson sued the debt collector for violating the TCPA, and was awarded $571,000 in statutory damages. Nelson […]
Employment Law
Julie Su, California Labor Commissioner issued citations against O & K Apparel Inc., a Los Angeles based wholesale woman’s clothing company, to pay $113,785 in overtime wages for 110 employees, plus penalties of $61,450 for failing to pay proper overtime and $307,250 for issuing improper itemized deduction statements. “Employers must pay workers the wages they have […]
Employment Law
New Jersey based debt collection agency, Pressler & Pressler is accused of suing the wrong person, even though that person had told them that he was not the man they were looking for. According to Marke Hoyte, he was sued by Pressler & Pressler even though his social security number and date of birth did not match the Marke Hoyte’s information in Pressler & Pressler’s file. It was […]
Employment Law
According to federal labor statistics, 4,609 employees were killed on the job nationwide in 2011, and 721 of those accidents happened on construction sites. One such tragedy happened recently in a Pacific Palisades, California construction site. Gilbert Vargas, 50, was operating a backhoe on a city public-works project in Pacific Palisades when the U-shaped trench he was working […]
Employment Law
AT&T, a leader in telecommunication services, including home phones, cell phones and hi-speed internet has reached a settlement with Cathy Birdsong, a former AT&T employee, accusing the company of failing to pay overtime or provide meal and rest breaks. According to the complaint, AT&T misclassified Birdsong and other California business manager employees as “exempt” as a tactic to deny them overtime compensation […]
Employment Law
Grammy award-winning R&B artist, Usher is being sued by his former nanny, Cecilia Duncan for unpaid overtime wages and wrongful termination. Usher was ranked named one of the best-selling artists in American music history by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after selling a record-breaking 23 million records in the United States and 65 million records worldwide. According […]
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