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Uber is facing another set of class-action lawsuits from Florida and Illinois. Two more drivers have taken their complaints over their employment status to the court.
The ride-hailing company has not yet settled their driver lawsuits but they recently submitted a proposal for a $100 million settlement in the two previous cases in California and Massachusetts. According to Fortune, the new lawsuits filed in Florida and Illinois claim that the company has violated the Fair Labor Standards...

Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit from American drivers who are seeking to get reimbursement on expenses and classify drivers as employees rather than contractors. The company just settled a similar lawsuit for $100 million, but avoided such a reclassification.
The lawsuit, filed Sunday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeks to change the classification of Uber drivers from independent contractor to employee and “recover unpaid overtime wages and...

Two weeks after Uber’s $100 million settlement with 385,000 drivers in Massachusetts and California, the ride-hailing service is facing fresh litigation.
On Sunday, a class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Uber drivers was filed with an Illinois district court—the scope of which is national. Much like the case settled in April, the newest suit alleges that Uber drivers are misclassified as independent contractors and should, as employees, be reimbursed for...

Uber is not out of the woods yet.
Less than two weeks after striking a high-profile settlement to end cases brought by drivers in Massachusetts and California, Uber Technologies Inc. is already facing new suits as plaintiffs lawyers jockey to advance the interests of drivers left out of the deal.
On Sunday, a Milwaukee plaintiffs lawyer filed a nationwide class action against Uber in Chicago, arguing that the company has failed to pay drivers the minimum wage and overtime in...

The class action flood gates have opened.
Less than two weeks after Uber Technologies agreed to pay up to $100 million to settle class-action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts in which drivers sought to be reclassified as employees instead of independent contractors, the ride-hailing company has been slapped with two new cases.
Lawyers in Florida and Illinois have filed similar nationwide class-action lawsuits on behalf of Uber drivers who say the San Francisco company...

Having been kicked out of his home, John McTiernan is now accusing First Interstate Bank of swindling him.
The director of such blockbusters as Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October and Predator went to jail in 2013 over false statements made to the FBI during its investigation into the activity of private eye Anthony Pellicano. When he got out of a South Dakota prison in February 2014, he found himself in the midst of a war-of-words with the bank that held debt secured by his 3,254-acre...

In one of the biggest settlements of its kind to date, U.S. drug giant Pfizer has entered a tentative agreement to pay $784.6 million to settle long-running allegations that drug manufacturer Wyeth overcharged Medicaid for its heartburn medication Protonix. The two whistleblowers who brought the initial claims under the False Claims Act stand to split a whistleblower award of nearly $59 million.
Tip of the Big Pharma Fraud Iceberg says Whistleblower Lawyer “The conduct of Big...

A Menomonee Falls architecture and construction firm has agreed to pay $3 million to settle civil and criminal charges that it defrauded the federal government's "Buy American" rules for contractors.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Novum Structures repackaged steel and other construction materials from foreign countries to appear as if it were sourced in the United States. The firm used the materials on government projects around the country, such as a courthouse in Illinois,...

A Wisconsin-based contractor who performed work at the Miami Intermodal Center pleaded guilty this week and paid $3 million in criminal and civil fines for defrauding the federal government.
The charges stemmed from Novum Structural LLC claims that it used materials forged and manufactured in the United States for at least three federally funded projects: The United States Courthouse in Rockford, Illinois; a street car expansion in New Orleans, and the $2 billion Miami Intermodal Center...

Wisconsin-based contractor Novum Structures has admitted it passed off foreign construction materials as American and has agreed to pay $3 million in civil and criminal settlements.
Novum, based in Menomonee Falls, pleaded guilty in federal court in Milwaukee Wednesday. The company admitted it substituted components manufactured in China and elsewhere for materials labeled as U.S.-made, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice. The parts were used in government buildings...