• 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

• posted: Dec. 31, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• financial fraud,  financial crime,  Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a record judgment against JPMorgan Chase & Company and its subsidiaries. JPMorgan will pay out a record $920.2 million for a CFTC case, Read More

• posted: Dec. 28, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• OSHA,  Occupational Safety and Health Administration,  whistleblower complaint

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reports an increase in whistleblower complaints, particularly over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and many of which are related to the pandemic Read More

• posted: Dec. 28, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• healthcare fraud,  kickback scheme

Wheeling Hospital in West Virginia recently agreed to pay $50 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower case alleging improper kickbacks and payments to doctors that were directed Read More

• posted: Dec. 21, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• AIG,  corporate fraud

An ex-attorney for American International Group (AIG) filed a federal lawsuit claiming AIG fired him after he formally complained about fraudulent activity surrounding an effort to create a separate legal Read More

• posted: Dec. 17, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• HIPPA

Potential whistleblowers in a medical setting should be familiar with HIPAA and its implications if they are to establish a viable case that does not violate the rights of other Read More

• posted: Dec. 14, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• eeoc,  race discrimination

Presbyterian Healthcare Services, a healthcare organization that operates Lincoln County Medical Center and its emergency services unit in New Mexico, paid $150,000 and provided other relief to settle a race Read More

• posted: Dec. 10, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employment discrimination,  discrimination,  Wells Fargo,  OFCCP

Wells Fargo agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle national claims that it routinely discriminated against black and female job applicants, a violation of antidiscrimination laws. According to the U.S. Department Read More

• posted: Dec. 07, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• CFTC Whistleblower Program

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced this summer a whistleblower award of approximately $9 million, one of its most valuable awards yet. The award was granted to a whistleblower who Read More

• posted: Dec. 03, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• CFPB,  deceptive claims

In July, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered a final judgment to resolve allegations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) allegations against Certified Forensic Read More

• posted: Nov. 30, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• overweight hauling,  truck driver

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) ordered a California trucking company to reinstate a former truck driver it fired after raising safety concerns about overweight hauling. The instructions from OSHA Read More