On Dec. 8, 2008, a jury awarded $873,000 to an insurance adjuster who claimed he was fired for cooperating with an FBI investigation. In 2003, the FBI began investigating fraud allegations made against one of Fred Klecka’s co-workers. Klecka claimed that when his managers learned he was cooperating with the…
A Los Angeles jury has ordered Kaiser Permanante to pay $7.5 million in punitive damages to a radiologist who was forced to resign from one the company’s hospitals in 2006 after complaining about patient care. The jury’s decision means Kaiser owes the doctor a combined $11.4 million. The same panel…
A security guard who was fired after failing a hearing test was awarded $257,048 in a disability discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Attorney General. The man aged 61, lost his job at the federal courthouse in Victoria because he could not pass the required hearing test. He sued under the…
Two inspectors who were fired from the inspector general’s office at the Texas Education Agency are suing the agency, claiming wrongful termination after they tried to investigate fraud and waste in the TEA, according to officials. The men want to be reinstated and are seeking unspecified damages. The lawsuit contends…
Four pharmacists at the University of Texas Medical Branch filed suit claiming that the medical institution is discriminating against them because of their nationalities. The pharmacists claim that their superiors used their Nigerian origins as a reason to overlook them for raises, compensation and promotion, despite each individual’s education and…
A federal appeals court denied former employees of EMC Corp. class-action status in their complaint against the company claiming sexual discrimination. This means that the plaintiffs will have to pursue their complaints on an individual basis. The two plaintiffs had each worked in EMC’s Chicago-area sales force from 1999 to…
According to a new lawsuit filed by four former human-resources managers recent layoffs at Dell unfairly targeted women and workers over age 40, and the company discriminates against women in pay and promotions, The four former HR executives at Dell are seeking US$500 million in a class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday…
A Cleveland jury awarded the largest verdict in Ohio history — $46.6 million — to a man who they said was wrongfully fired last year. Ronald Luri, 55, alleged that Republic Services Inc. of retaliation and of forging documents critical of his job performance after he refused to fire three…
In this case, black Secret Service agents sued the Secret Service alleging racial bias and a glass ceiling mentality at the agency. The judge presiding over the case, has already sanctioned the agency three times for dragging its feet in handing over racially charged e-mails shared by white Secret Service…