• posted: Jan. 28, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower complaint

Trisa Crutcher, an employee of a Fort Worth Police Crime Laboratory, recently filed a whistleblower complaint alleging a variety of violations at the lab that could result in negative impacts Read More

• posted: Jan. 25, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• healthcare fraud,  Medicaid Fraud,  kickback scheme

Methodist Healthcare and West Cancer Center, both located in Memphis, Tennessee, were recently named in a whistleblower lawsuit revolving around illegal kickbacks to doctors. Former Methodist University Hospital CEO Jeff Liebman Read More

• posted: Jan. 21, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• OSHA,  Occupational Safety and Health Administration,  covid-19,  workplace safety

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a surge of whistleblower complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. A significant portion of these complaints are related to claims of retaliation Read More

• posted: Jan. 18, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Securities and Exchange Commission,  SEC whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a pair of new whistleblower awards at the start of November, both going to individuals who assisted the commission with their investigations Read More

• posted: Jan. 14, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• fraudulent labor expense,  time charging

Bechtel Corp. and a subcontractor, Aecom, paid $58 million to settle claims of billing the Department of Energy for fraudulent labor expenses. The two companies have been working together on the Read More

• posted: Jan. 11, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• sexual harassment,  Civil Rights Act of 1964,  eeoc

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed a lawsuit against the owner of a Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham, a hotel near the airport in Kent, Washington. The lawsuit alleges Read More

• posted: Jan. 07, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• religious discrimination,  Civil Rights Act of 1964,  eeoc

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently filed a lawsuit against Frito-Lay, Inc., the PepsiCo subsidiary based in Texas, on the basis of illegal discrimination. EEOC claimed the company violated Read More

• posted: Jan. 04, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• covid,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A teacher at H.D. Berkey Elementary School in New Kensington, Pennsylvania recently submitted an anonymous letter to Action News 4 in Pittsburgh containing concerns about the New Kensington Arnold School Read More