Client Portals
Jacob Hazlett, the former North Charleston church volunteer who was charged with five additional sexual exploitation counts was prosecuted when he was 18 years old for an attempted assault 11 years ago in Ohio. Hazlett agreed to plead guilty to the charge of attempted…
A stewardess on board the Endless Summer yacht, docked at Universal Marine Center in Fort Lauderdale in 2015, was awarded nearly $70.6 million in damages after she sued the yacht’s owner following an incident involving the yacht’s deckhand. Rafael…
With American businesses losing $81 billion dollars per year due to drug use, many businesses are searching for ways to combat addiction within their company. Opioids like Vicodin, Percocet and OxyContin are responsible for an increasing number of workplace accidents…
The family of a woman who was found raped and murdered in her Cook County, Chicago, apartment has filed a civil lawsuit against the murderer’s employer. Suspect Mejia Maya was working for a Florida-based drywall company and was a neighbor of Misty King. According to…
The former vice president of Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America who was terminated in January 2013 accused the bank of falsely reporting it had conclusive evidence of her criminal wrongdoing to Early Warning Services L.L.C. Charges included blacklisting and…
The Indiana Supreme Court recently considered whether the plaintiff in a wrongful death case can bring employment-based claims against an employer if the employer has admitted the employee involved in the death was acting in the scope of their employment. Pizza Hut…
War hero Jacob Matthew Cadriel recently was awarded more than 1 million dollars after he was shot and killed by co-worker Steven Damien Young in 2015. The jury found Woven Metal Products, Inc. negligent in knowingly providing an unsafe workplace for its employees. The…
An investigation recently revealed flaws in Ohio’s background check system that led to one woman’s nightmare. In 2010, she lost her husband when he was shot and killed by co-worker Nathaniel A. Brown. Brown, a janitor, also injured another man before…
The Department of Human Services in Pennsylvania blames its IT system for failing to include incidents of abuse or neglect in the background checks of 28 people applying to work with children. Despite the fact the 28 would have still been permitted to work with…
Given a workforce facing unprecedented skills gaps and a country where tens of thousands of state and federal inmates are being released back into their communities every month, finding a way to integrate previously incarcerated persons into the workforce is a worthy…