• posted: Feb. 20, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• Citigroup,  richard bowen

Richard Bowen has been the subject of a lot of attention in recent years. He’s been featured in the New York Times and was a subject of a segment on Read More

• posted: Feb. 17, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• retaliation

Shortly after Chrystal Thierry refused to approve some extremely high pay raises for several top administrators within the Dallas Independent School District, she says she became the victim of retaliation. Read More

• posted: Feb. 16, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• JPMorgan Chase,  settlement

In what was the largest settlement ever reached between the United States Department of Justice and a corporation, JPMorgan Chase paid out $13 billion to the government in response to Read More

• posted: Feb. 12, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• CareAll,  whistleblower suit

CareAll Management LLC, a Tennessee-based agency that provides in-home health care services, must pay $25 million to settle a whistleblower suit. The agency came to an agreement with the United Read More

• posted: Feb. 09, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• corruption,  Global Fund

A whistleblower case involving a nonprofit organization made big news recently after an employee was fired for “uncovering too much corruption” in grants given to the organization. That employee was Read More

• posted: Feb. 05, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• opinions

Now that there are more protections available for whistleblowers than ever before, especially whistleblowers in federal agencies, opinions on the act of whistleblowing have also begun to shift in a Read More

• posted: Feb. 02, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

An oil inspector in Texas claims to have been wrongfully fired for reporting safety violations within his company and being subject to unfair retaliation in the time leading up to Read More

• posted: Jan. 29, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

A pair of former brokers for Goldman Sachs & Company’s Los Angeles offices earned $7.6 million in monetary awards after filing a wrongful termination and discrimination suit against the company. Read More

• posted: Jan. 26, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

In retrospect, 2014 has to be considered a success for the whistleblower program run by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This year, whistleblowers who earned awards through Read More

• posted: Jan. 19, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) gave a MTA Metro-North railroad employee a record award under the Federal Railroad Safety Act after they suffered an injury in 2011. The Read More

• posted: Jan. 15, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

On December 15, the Court of Appeals for the state of Minnesota made a decision that reversed 20 years of precedent by extending the Minnesota Whistleblower Act’s statute of limitations Read More

• posted: Jan. 12, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

Since the establishment of the SEC Whistleblower Program, there have been a lot more highly publicized cases of whistleblowers coming forward and revealing wrongdoing within their organizations, specifically in regard Read More

• posted: Jan. 12, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• whistleblower cases

Since the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted in 2010, there has been a significant rise in complaints filed under the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA), Read More

• posted: Jan. 08, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment

A federal judge is allowing an ex-fraud investigator for Dow Chemical Co. to pursue a wrongful termination claim. Kimberly Wood, who had worked for 25 years at Dow before the Read More

• posted: Jan. 07, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• anti-retaliation provisions,  Maine Whistleblowers Protection Act,  MHRA

Not all reports of internal wrongdoing are technically considered whistleblower actions. In 2013, the First Circuit Court established an important “job duties” exception related to the Maine Whistleblowers Protection Act. Read More

• posted: Jan. 05, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• employee rights,  labor and employment,  whistleblowers

In what is being considered a record, landmark case, a former bank executive at Countrywide Financial (now owned by Bank of America Corporation) was awarded $57 million for exposing the Read More