Workplace Injuries

• Carnival Cruise Lines Settles Unpaid Overtime Lawsuit

  Robert Wolf | May 08, 2006 4:31 PM | 4 CommentsDallas, TX

  From a honeymooner going overboard to alleged medical malpractice (update: not to mention the filing of Princess cruise lawsuits), it has not been a banner year for public relations of cruise lines. To add to the growing list of bad PR, Carnival Cruise Lines will pay $6.25 million to thousands of current and former crew members who alleged in federal lawsuits they were not paid enough overtime,...

• Healthcare Staffing Industry Employees Illegally Denied Overtime Pay

  Jeremi Young | January 24, 2006 9:42 AM | 2 CommentsDallas, TX

  Due to a shortage of health care workers in the U.S., healthcare staffing companies have experienced tremendous opportunities and growth in recent years. Companies like MHA Group, the parent company of Merritt Hawkins & Associates as wells as Staff Care, Inc., and Martin Fletcher & Associates, employ hundreds of workers who attempt to entice physicians, nurses and other health care workers to...

• Parkland Hospital Sued for Unpaid Overtime

  RLF Staff | March 14, 2008 9:05 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Claiming she and other nurses had not been paid overtime for work done over the course of three years, Carrolton-resident Angela Valcho has filed a lawsuit against Parkland Health & Hospital System. As an hourly employee, a 30-minute lunch was automatically deducted when clocking in and out of the payroll system. According to her attorney, Alan Crone, Valcho claims there were several days when...

• Mortgage Company Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for Unpaid Overtime

  Staff Writer | January 19, 2006 2:34 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  First Horizon Mortgage Corp. has been sued by several of its former loan officers. They contend that First Horizon Mortgage did not pay them overtime and violated the law. More specifically, seven loan officers for First Horizon in Johnson County, Kan., had filed suit in U.S. District Court Kansas City, Kan., in October claiming the company failed to pay them for overtime they worked. ...

• Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Entitled to Overtime Pay

  Jeremi Young | March 28, 2006 4:34 PM | 3 CommentsDallas, TX

  The Fifth Circuit court of Appeals has ruled that Nurse Practitioners ("NPs") and Physician Assistants ("PAs") who are paid on an hourly basis are entitled to overtime compensation for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.In June Belt, and others, versus EmCare, Inc and Texas EM-I Medical Services, P.A., a group of NPs and PAs sued claiming that their employer was violating federal law by...

• Employee Right to Choose Doctor When Injured On the Job

  Jeff Rasansky | March 13, 2009 8:57 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Each morning when I arrive at work – usually by about six - I’m surprised to see the construction crews already on site next door. Next door to our Dallas office another...

• Dallas Brain Injury Lawyer: How do I determine who is at fault?

  Jeff Rasansky | September 23, 2008 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Question: I received a brain injury while on the job. How do I determine who is at fault? Answer: Whenever you are injured on the job, you are able to receive workers’ compensation benefits....

• Construction Crane Accident Attorney in Dallas

  Jeff Rasansky | January 05, 2009 12:47 PM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Construction accidents are very common in that particular industry. There are many perilous aspects to working around construction and it is quite easy to get hurt when working on scaffolding and...

• 1 Man Killed, 7 Injured After Wall Collapses at Rice University

  Jeff Rasansky | June 20, 2008 10:46 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  A wall collapse at a construction site on the Rice University campus has left one worker dead and seven others injured. The collapse happened at around 4 p.m. Five workers were trapped when some...

• Employee or Contractor Under Overtime Laws

  Jeremi Young | May 03, 2006 10:31 AM | 0 CommentsDallas, TX

  Are you treated as an independent contractor by the company you work for? If so, you should take a closer look at whether you are being legally treated that way.Many company's tell workers they are "independent contractors" in order to avoid the obligations tha come with employment. However, the mere fact that taxes are not withheld from your check does not mean you are properly classified as...