Sacramento, CA
Employment and labor Lawyer at Sacramento, CA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Wrongful Termination, Sexual Harassment
OUTCOME: Settled for $1,650,000
False Claims Case filed by relator, a pharmacist, on behalf of the United States Government and multiple states against Wal-Mart for failing to verify certain prescriptions before requesting payment fr ... om Medi-Cal.
OUTCOME: Settled for $750.000.
Plaintiff was harassed based on her religion and wrongfully terminated.
OUTCOME: Settled for 2.24 Million
Represented the relator in a False Claims case filed on behalf of the United States Government against Omnicare, Inc for submitting bills to the government with false NDC drug codes.
OUTCOME: The jury awarded the plaintiff $157,300. The court awarded plaintiff's counsel attorney's fees in the amount of $169,285
The employer insisted that the plaintiff, a truck driver, had a heart condition after he had an allergic reaction to a cold medication. The employer insisted that plaintiff get a DOT physical exam and ... check the box on his medical history indicating he had heart disease. Plaintiff refused to falsify his DOT medical record and was subsequently released to return to work following his DOT medical exam. The employer refused to allow the plaintiff to return to work but instead suspended and later terminated him for allegedly damaging company property a month earlier. Plaintiff had flat tire and had to pull is truck to the next freeway exit because his truck was blocking the right lane of the highway thus presenting a hazard to other drivers. Employer claimed plaintiff should not have moved his truck and that he damaged company property, a wheel rim, when he drove off the highway.
OUTCOME: Jury Awarded 175,000 in compensatory and $230,000 in punitive damages
The plaintiff, a male apartment maintenance worker, was sexually harassed by a female apartment manager and subsequently terminated.