• posted: Jan. 12, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• hostile work environment,  racial slur,  Racial discrimination

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently reminded employers that non-employees can cause a hostile work environment. Employers are responsible for ensuring that neither employees nor non-employees Read More

• posted: Jan. 10, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• telehealth,  telehealth medicare fraud

The COVID-19 pandemic made telehealth essential. With shutdowns across the country, people still needed medical care, and telehealth came to the rescue. The number of “virtual” physicians increased from zero Read More

• posted: Jan. 05, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Eli Lilly,  unlawful retaliation

Three years ago, Amrit Mula was a top human resources officer at Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical giant in New Jersey. Now, she’s filing an unlawful retaliation lawsuit in New Jersey Read More

• posted: Jan. 03, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• windfalls

Despite claims by offending companies, whistleblowers aren’t getting rich by reporting their employers. If anything, they suffer steep consequences and often wait years before receiving compensation. Here are the facts Read More

• posted: Dec. 29, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• healthcare billing fraud

A physician, his son and their medical practice agreed to pay the U.S. $980,000 to resolve allegations arising from the False Claims Act. The pair allegedly submitted medically unnecessary urine Read More

• posted: Dec. 27, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• false Medicare claims

American Senior Communities LLC, or ASC, violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare. The organization recently agreed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pay just Read More

• posted: Dec. 22, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC,  Securities and Exchange Commission,  SEC whistleblower awards

Investment and public interest groups applaud recent changes in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules. After previous efforts to weaken these rules, the SEC restored the regulations to better award Read More

• posted: Dec. 20, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination,  Covid-19
• remote work

A Chinese American engineer, who was fired for refusing to come into the office during the COVID-19 pandemic, has amended his ongoing lawsuit to include claims the former company allowed Read More

• posted: Dec. 15, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  whistleblower laws,  wrongful termination,  Sarbanes-Oxley violation

New Jersey’s Department of Community Affairs has been accused of firing their chief financial officer, after he informed the agency’s leaders about waste and conflicts of interest in the state’s Read More

• posted: Dec. 13, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• antitrust,  Jiffy Lube,  no-poach agreements

Jiffy Lube has reached a $2 million settlement in a class action lawsuit. The class consists of about 1,250 Philadelphia-area hourly employees, who claimed the company prohibited franchisees from hiring Read More

• posted: Dec. 08, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• FMLA Eligibility,  Spirit Airlines

A former Spirit Airlines flight attendant has proposed a class action suit against the budget airline. The suit alleges that the airline enforced family and medical leave policies which are Read More

• posted: Dec. 06, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Wrongful Termination
• wrongful termination,  Racial discrimination,  Civil Rights Act of 1964

Three Black former employees at a bridge construction company have appealed the verdict in their discrimination suit to the Eleventh Circuit, claiming their employer paid them less that white coworkers, Read More

• posted: Dec. 01, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• white collar crime

White collar crime costs the United States about $300 billion dollars per year—and most Americans don’t even realize it. Because white collar crime is typically nonviolent, it doesn’t get the Read More

• posted: Nov. 29, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• layoffs,  mass layoff

Rosen Hotels and Resorts, a hospitality system based in Orland, has recently settled class action claims brought under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act for $2.3 million. Hotel Read More

• posted: Nov. 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• False Claims Act,  employer retaliation,  red flags

A Cincinnati surgeon has filed a lawsuit against the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, claiming he was retaliated against when he raised concerns about a colleague’s fitness. Dr. Charles Mehlman Read More

• posted: Nov. 22, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• climate change,  environmental crimes

It’s no secret that climate change is happening at an increasingly rapid pace. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, sea levels are rising and once-normal weather events are more destructive Read More