[Ed. Note. This story is in two parts. Part one outlines the attempt of Dr. Asad Ullah Qamar to avoid a whistleblower Medicare fraud lawsuit by filing bankruptcy. Since the first post was written, the court has now ruled in favor of the government and whistleblowers.] Earlier this year, Dr. Asad Qamar, his wife and […]
Uber Driver Was Granted Unemployment Benefits
Last March, as Uber still awaited larger scale decisions in lawsuits over similar issues, a former Uber driver was awarded $9000 of unemployment benefits. While Uber sources try to claim the case was not precedent setting, the court would not have granted such benefits to an independent contractor. Patrick Ely, a resident of San Diego, […]
Disgraced Shipbuilder Gets Contract to Build More Ships
Bollinger Shipyards was awarded a contract to build 26 Coast Guard cutters. The estimated value of the contract is $1.7 billion. The contract award comes just five months after the company paid $8.5 million to settle False Claims Act claims alleging the company misstated the strength of previous cutters. That error caused several boats to buckle […]
Lorri Trosper Becomes the Voice of Uber Drivers: Trosper’s All-Driver Lawsuit
What is the secret of Uber’s success? According to Forbes’ Daniel Fisher, the company attained its $60 billion market value “by disregarding just about every law, regulation and entrenched special interest standing in its way.” In the beginning, everyone thought Uber was the best idea ever. People could make money in their free time, unemployed […]
Drug Rehab Faces Massive Whistleblower Lawsuit
The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in a massive whistleblower lawsuit against Narco Freedom. A non-profit company, Narco Freedom operated 21 outpatient rehabilitation facilities in New York City. The company and some of its executives face criminal and civil fraud charges. The civil whistleblower claim was brought by six former employees of Narco Freedom. Each […]
UBER Faces America-wide Lawsuit over Drivers’ Independent Contractor Status & Missing Tips
UBER national lawsuit? After settling the Uber driver lawsuits in California and Massachusetts, the company is up against its greatest legal challenge yet – a high profile activist driver with a billion dollar lawyer known for holding mega corporations accountable. UBER is arguably the gig economy’s biggest financial success. In mid-2015, it was valued at […]
Cook County Record
Uber hit with class actions from drivers claiming they should be treated as employees under FLSA by Jonathan Bilyk | Link to original source (120K) In the wake of ride-sharing company Uber’s settlement of class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts over the company’s classification of drivers as contractors, rather than employees, another class action […]
Forbes
Uber Faces New Class Action Suit By Drivers by Erik Sherman | Link to original source (136K) Just as Uber settled a pair of class action suits with its drivers in Massachusetts and California, here comes another one. This time the suit is aiming to collect all U.S. Uber drivers who aren’t in one of […]
Inc.
Inside the Brand-New Class-Action Suit Against Uber Contractors or employees? It’s the question that just won’t die for Uber. by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin | Link to original source (131K) Is Uber treating its independent-contractor drivers too much like employees? A new national class-action complaint filed Sunday night against Uber in federal court in the Northern District of […]
JD Journal
More Uber Worker Misclassification Lawsuits Filed by Teresa Lo | Link to original source (112K) Less than two weeks after Uber settled its California and Massachusetts misclassification lawsuits, other states’ drivers are clamoring to get their own easy payday. The Los Angeles Times reports that new class action worker misclassification lawsuits have been filed in […]
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