$9M settlement reached in Lawsuit over worker crushed by Forklift
A man whose leg was amputated after being run over by a forklift twice has settled for $9 million his lawsuit against a series of companies and the staffing agency that assigned him to the warehouse where he was injured. The settlement, announced Tuesday, April 23rd by the law firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky, was reached between plaintiff Charles Jones and defendants Mill Corp., Newman & Company, Bridge View Paper...
Trucking company to pay ex-employee with sleep apnea $30K for failing to reinstate him
The New Jersey attorney general announced this week that a trucking company must pay a former employee with sleep apnea $30,000 for failing to reinstate him despite medical clearance. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division on Civil Rights issued a news release on Wednesday, Aug. 8, saying that New Jersey trucking company P. Judge & Sons will make the payment to resolve allegations it fired the...
OSHA fines Idaho & Sedalia Transportation Company
RCL Wiring LP, which operates as Idaho & Sedalia Transportation Company, harassed and terminated a signal shop technician in retaliation for reporting a work-related injury in violation of the Federal Railroad Safety Act, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators determined. OSHA has ordered the company to give the employee his job back and pay more than $332,469 in back wages and...
LoneStar Forklift, Inc. takes Omega Lift to court
LoneStar Forklift, Inc. of Garland, Texas is suing Omega Lift Distributors, Inc. for fraud and misrepresentation and are scheduled to face a jury trial which begins on April 20, 2015 in US District Court in Dallas, Texas. Court records state that “Omega Lift has failed and refused to refund $101,000 or deliver the (arm telescopic forklift model ARM 10T55-E) to LoneStar as it promised to do.”
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