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Earlier this month, the EEOC announced that Walmart Stores will pay $11.7 million in back wages and compensatory damages, up to $250,000 in administration fees and will furnish other relief, including jobs, to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the EEOC. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Walmart’s London, Ky., Distribution Center denied jobs to female applicants […]
Staged accidents, phony billing, and other types of personal injury protection (PIP) insurance fraud continue to be a major problem in Florida and the investigation and prosecution of PIP fraud is a high priority for the state’s Division of Insurance Fraud. Those were the main messages of a March 5, 2010, press conference held in […]
Each year at the outset of the legislative session, there is considerable speculation as to proposals that might pass and those that will fall by the wayside. Some proposals evoke strong feelings from opposing sides of the debate, as is likely to be the case in 2010 with proposals like the “consumer choice” bill that […]
Radey Thomas Yon & Clark congratulates Taproot Creative, developer of our www.radeylaw.com website, on its recent ADDY award in the interactive media division. Taproot Creative submitted www.radeylaw.com for consideration as an example of its website development work, and the site won a silver ADDY award from the American Advertising Federation. Radey Thomas Yon & Clark […]
As many observers noted, the EEOC’s Performance Results for the FY 2009 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) were released toward the end of last year. The PAR is based on the EEOC’s current modified Strategic Plan for FY 2007 through FY 2010 which was approved by the Commission in 2008. The current strategic plan contained […]
Senator Garrett Richter’s Cat Fund bill (CS/SB 1460) sailed through the Banking and Insurance Committee. The bill addresses the accounting problems insurers have encountered with the contract year change made in statutory amendments last year. The bill will require companies to execute reimbursement agreements in March, but provide that the contract year will still run […]
On February 22, 2010, the Office of Insurance Regulation held a workshop on potential revisions to the workers’ compensation insurance excessive profits rule (69O-189.007, F.A.C.) and its incorporated Excessive Profits Reporting Form (OIR-B1-15). The Office is engaging in rulemaking as the result of an agreement reached with the petitioner in an ongoing administrative law rule […]
Earlier this month, the EEOC announced that the agency had secured its largest Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement in history. The case against Sears Roebuck & Co was brought in the Northern District of Illinois in 2004 and just this month resulted in a court approved settlement. In the lawsuit, the EEOC claimed that Sears implemented […]
Among many other items of interest, President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 includes a continued COBRA subsidy proposal. If enacted (and made retroactive to its proposed start date of March 1, 2010), the provision would continue a 65% subsidy for qualified workers who are laid off between March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2010. […]
Coventry First LLC is a Florida viatical settlement provider. It provided the OIR with thousands of pages of documents during OIR’s regulatory investigation of Coventry’s business in 2007. Among the documents produced to the OIR were Coventry trade secrets. When the documents were produced, the Insurance Code made the documents confidential and exempt from disclosure […]
