Blog Posts in February, 2009
Posted on Feb 24, 2009 By James V. Sabatini
They are called "dead peasant" policies -- secret life insurance policies taken out on unwitting employees -- and they have now triggered civil litigation. In Oklahoma, a federal judge recently ruled ...
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Posted on Feb 23, 2009 By James V. Sabatini
President Obama signs into law the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The Ledbetter Fair Pay Act overturns a Supreme Court ruling by re-starting the statute of limitations clock every time a worker gets a ...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2009 By James V. Sabatini
In a decision with implications for the nation's 24 million diabetics, a federal appeals court ruled that a Type-2 diabetes patient was entitled to the protections of the Americans With Disabilities ...
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Posted on Feb 17, 2009 By James V. Sabatini
Over the last few months, the Connecticut wrongful termination and employment discrimination law firm of Sabatini and Associates, LLC, has been retained to pursue wrongful termination and ...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2009 By James V. Sabatini
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by FedEx to review a $100,000 punitive damages award against it for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to a deaf package handler. Ronald Lockhart ...
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