Obtained disability retirement and a cash settlement for a postal employee, thus allowing him to relocate from Florida to New York to be with his family in order to recover from a medical condition.
Achieved reinstatement of a Federal Air Marshall with full back pay and benefits for a total compensation of over $100,000 after his termination.
Obtained reversal of a denial of disability retirement for a postal employee by the OPM, plus attorneys fees from the MSPB.
Several healthcare providers, ambulatory surgical centers, chiropractic associations, and durable medical equipment providers have recently joined in on a class action ERISA lawsuit filed against UnitedHealthcare. The lawsuit was initially filed on January 24, 2011 by a small group of chiropractors for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by UnitedHealthcare subsidiary OptumHealth. The [...]
New regulations to the Americans with Disabilities Act open up the possibility of an increase in disability class action lawsuits. The amendments to the ADA make it easier for individuals to determine if they qualify as having a disability and focus more on how an employer treats their employees, and less on what the employer [...]
The Fertel Foundation and the Nation Institute recently recognized a federal whistleblower by awarding the employee the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling. The groups said that the whistleblower, Thomas Drake, “exposed the ethical, budgetary and acquisition shortcomings at the NSA.” The award has a 10,000 stipend. Drake formerly worked with the National Security Agency and risk [...]
Last month, a former pathologist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia won a discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit filed against the federal agency. In a unique ruling, a federal court issued the ruling that the Department of Veterans Affairs is prohibited from terminating an employee while civil rights claims are pending [...]
Last week, a federal appeals court voted to keep a secrecy provision in whistleblower protection laws in place. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia issued a 2-1 vote to keep the provision which keeps complaints against federal employers and agencies secret for at least 60 days while officials investigate the claims. The American [...]
