InjuryBoard Richmond Archives

• Butler Williams Wins Important Unpaid Overtime Decision

  Michael Phelan | January 31, 2008 9:15 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  We are pleased to report that, today, our law firm received a favorable Fourth Circuit Court ruling for a client establishing a claim for a company's retaliation against former employees who claim unpaid overtime compensation. The controlling law which requires the payment of overtime for all hours worked over 40 per week, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), contains separate retaliation...

• Wage and Hour Claim Costs Company $10 Million

  Michael Phelan | January 30, 2008 10:36 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides that the vast majority of employees are entitled to overtime pay at "time and a half" for every hour worked beyond 40 hours in a week. The FSLA is complex, and many employers violate both the FSLA and state laws governing overtime pay. The penalties for violating the overtime pay laws are recovery of two to three years of unpaid wages, liquidated...

• Allstate Faces Contempt Charges for Handling of Auto Cases

  Michael Phelan | January 17, 2008 3:33 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  I blogged earlier this year about Allstate's "Delay, Deny, and Defend" policy designed to screw injured victims making claims under Allstate policies. CNN's Anderson Cooper also did an expose on this practice. The courts are now catching on. Allstate is facing contempt charges in Missouri with a $25,000.00 per day fine because it refuses to produce a report from consultant McKinsey & Co....

• Your Stryker Hip Implant Could be Defective

  Michael Phelan | January 17, 2008 10:57 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Defective & Dangerous Products

  According to an FDA Warning issued on November 28, 2007 and released to the public on January 15, 2008, some models of Stryker hip implants may be defective. The FDA has received numerous complaints concerning Stryker hip implants from patients experiencing fractures, pain, wear particles, fragments, and broached bones resulting in bone fractures. Many of these problems required revision...

• Fibromyalgia Drug Approved by FDA

  Michael Phelan | January 14, 2008 10:59 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Fibromyalgia is a disease whose very existence is questioned by some doctors, typically doctors hired by insurance defense lawyers in personal injury cases. However, fibromyalgia must be a real disease, because drug giant, Pfizer, says it is. Pfizer is marketing its drug Lyrica, which is the first drug approved to treat this pain condition. Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic, widespread...

• Lockhead to Pay for Racial Discrimination

  Michael Phelan | January 07, 2008 10:47 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  Lockheed Martin Corporation has agreed to pay a former African American employee $2.5 million to settle a racial discrimination case filed by the U.S. Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission. The former employee, a 45 year old aviation electrician, said he was called racial slurs and threatened by four co-workers and a supervisor between 1999 and 2001. When he complained about how the...