Union suing HCA over flu shots
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 11:39 am
The Service Employees International Union says the country’s biggest hospital operator can’t unilaterally require employees to wear surgical masks if they haven’t been immunized against the H1N1 virus.
Union officials say the policy should have been subject to negations since it affects employment terms, but HCA has declined to bargain. HCA officials said the policy is part of their comprehensive infection-control program to protect workers and patients, and they plan to continue moving forward with it.
Texas doctor gets $10M in Iasis lawsuit
Posted on November 2, 2009 at 9:54 amA Texas jury has ruled that Iasis Healthcare interfered with a doctor’s emergency department management contract negotiations at its 225-bed hospital in Port Arthur, The Southeast Texas Record reports. The doctor was awarded $10 million for past and future lost profits.
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Gun maker takes aim at TDOT
Posted on October 30, 2009 at 10:39 am
Ronnie Barrett says state officials told him they were on board with his plans to expand and add 300 jobs just off I-24 in Rutherford County — until they weren’t and left him with a building he can’t get to.
“TDOT was very in favor of it. They said, ‘Yes, we like it. It’s an old farm fence out there. I think it’s going to be easy just to move the fence,’” said Barrett. “Now we have the inability to be able to win certain government contracts because our building’s not big enough.”
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CCA settles with EEOC
Posted on October 14, 2009 at 12:18 pmFrom the AP:
The operators of a Colorado private prison have agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that male officers forced female workers to perform sexual acts to keep their jobs.
The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced the settlement with the Dominion Correctional Services LLC and Nashville, Tenn.-based Corrections Corporation of America on Tuesday.
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Thompson’s Station tells Tollgate to stop toiling
Posted on September 28, 2009 at 7:44 am
Saying developer James Carbine hasn’t followed through on a commitment to donate some land in his Tollgate development, Thompson’s Station officials have sued and ordered a halt to all construction work in the subdivision. Plans call for the 385-acre Tollgate site to have some 750 residences, but less than 100 have been built and occupied.
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More class actions lobbed against Psych Solutions
Posted on at 7:28 amThere’s blood in the water and the legal sharks are circling. Law firms out of Baltimore and Dallas have joined at least two others in filing potential class actions against Psychiatric Solutions (Ticker: PSYS) over the company’s disclosure of regulatory problems at its Riveredge hospital in Illinois.
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Wanted: A new face for a Healthways class action – and the ability to make meetings
Posted on September 25, 2009 at 2:08 am
The class action that took to task disease manager Healthways about its use of company stock in its 401(k) plan has been voluntarily dismissed because the lead plaintiff couldn’t make it to a deposition and had to withdraw from the case. The matter had been in the discovery phase with a trial date scheduled for next April.
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HCA Vegas hospital sued over alleged assault
Posted on September 23, 2009 at 9:20 am
A woman who was treated two years ago at HCA’s Mountain View hospital in Sin City says staff allowed a man to enter her room and rape her while she was in a ‘coma-like’ state. Company officials say this is the first they’ve heard of the alleged incident.
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Another Psych Solutions class action filing
Posted on at 8:25 amHop on, boys – there’s plenty of room for consolidation. A day after a San Diego firm accused Psychiatric Solutions of misleading investors, a Pennsylvania peer has followed suit. The firms’ accusations center on Psych Solutions managers’ disclosure of regulatory shortcomings at an Illinois facility.
SEE ALSO: Howard G. Smith’s roster of active cases
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Ellen’s ethical dilemma
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 1:49 pm
So now that everyone on the planet has caught up to our story from yesterday on record labels suing the Ellen DeGeneres Show for violating copyrights, TheImproper.com in New York eloquently raises the point that the TV show host might have a hard time showing up for the American Idol judging she agreed to this week.
In this day of decline record sales and diminishing revenues, there is perhaps no bigger sin in the record industry, and the cavalier way in which the show dismissed the claims almost demands that she be fired from “American Idol.”
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NES accused of discrimination
Posted on at 7:11 am
Kyle Swenson writes about NES workers’ claims of a “systematic practices and pattern of racial discrimation.” In addition to damages, the suit wants Metro to set up a task force for equality and fairness.
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Local contractor sues over VW bidding process
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 9:52 am
D.F. Chase and an Illinois company have sued various groups involved in the awarding of several construction contracts at Volkswagen’s rising Chattanooga campus.
SEE ALSO: D.F. Chase’s two contract wins in Chattanooga
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The thorn is back in CCA’s side
Posted on September 3, 2009 at 9:34 amPrison Legal News, the nonprofit that has hounded Corrections Corp. of America over various issues in recent years, has again sued the Nashville-based company (Ticker: CXW), this time accusing it of denying inmates certain books.
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Ruby Tuesday must pay $10M in assault case
Posted on August 31, 2009 at 6:57 amA Rutherford County jury has ruled that the restaurant chain needs to pay more than $10 million to a customer who was attacked by a fellow patron after the latter had been served oodles of booze. Local attorney George Nolan of Leader Bulso Nolan & Burnstein helped represent plaintiff Dan Maddy, whose complaint is available here.
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O’Charley’s settles Wisconsin suit
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 9:17 amThe Nashville-based restaurant chain has reached a deal that removes a former franchisee from the picture by buying its stake in a joint venture for $50,000. (Search for Wi-Tenn.)
SEE ALSO: The action brought by O’Charley’s (Ticker: CHUX) in this case last year that pulled Boston Market into the legal proceedings
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