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California Jury Awards Fired Allstate Employee More Than $18M

A former Allstate Insurance Co. employee who was fired following an arrest has been awarded more than $18 million in damages. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported a San Diego jury awarded 55-year-old Michael Tilkey about $2.6 million in actual damages …

Hot Yoga Founder Ordered to Give up Income to Pay for Sex Harrassment Lawsuit

The founder of Bikram yoga has been ordered to turn over the proceeds from his global fitness business to go toward a $6.8 million judgment his former legal adviser won against him last year in a sexual harassment and wrongful …

Ex-Glencore Oil Trader Fired for Drinking Loses ‘Ludicrous’ Suit

An ex-Glencore Xstrata Plc trader who was fired for drinking too much lost a wrongful termination lawsuit against the company, with a judge calling the case “ludicrous.” Judge Richard Seymour in London said Andrew Kearns’ firing in 2010 “was richly …

North Carolina Court Reverses Car Dealer Age Bias Ruling

A former North Carolina car dealership manager will get another chance to prove he was fired because of his age. The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed a Wake County court’s order that dismissed Arnold Floyd Johnson’s wrongful termination …

Fired West Virginia Schools Superintendant to Sue

Ex-schools superintendent Jorea Marple plans to sue the state Board of Education for what her lawyers are calling her illegal dismissal and will ask for “serious” damages, the attorneys said Wednesday. The four veteran lawyers representing the longtime educator, administrator …

Trial Under Way in Oil Spill Cleanup Worker Case in Michigan

A trial is under way in the case of a man who claims he was wrongfully fired from his job cleaning up a 2010 pipeline rupture that spilled more than 800,000 gallons of oil in southern Michigan. John Bolenbaugh of …