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If Lyft Drivers Were Employees They Would Be Owed $126 Million, Say Court Documents

Michael Grothaus03.21.16 8:27 AM If Lyft drivers were considered employees of the ride-hailing company—rather than independent contractors, as they are currently classified—they would have been paid a total of $126 million more over the last four years, Reuters reports recent court records show. The $126 million figure is related to expense reimbursements Lyft drivers could claim if they were …


Grief-Stricken Germanwings Families Plan US Lawsuit

The grief of families who lost loved ones when a suicidal co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps has long turned to anger, a year after the tragedy that claimed 150 lives. Many relatives have banded together with plans to take the airline’s parent company Lufthansa to court in the United States, arguing that the depressive 27-year-old Andreas Lubitz should never have been …


Lawsuit Over Flint, Michigan, Crisis Says 17 Children Have High Lead Levels

A group of Flint, Michigan, parents and their children filed a class action on Monday alleging that gross negligence by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and others caused the city’s drinking water to become contaminated with lead. The lawsuit was filed in Detroit federal court and seeks damages for a proposed class of “tens of thousands” of Flint residents and property owners who have suffered …


Sony Finally Hands Out Free Game Codes for Its 2011 Hack

What you can claim depends on which services you were signed up to at the time of the attack and the choices you made at the start of last year. If you grabbed a free game as part of Sony’s “Welcome Back” promotion shortly after the attack, you’ll get one more, if not, you can pick two up now. The list includes games like inFamous, LittleBigPlanet and God of War HD Collection but they’ll only …


Chipotle Returns to Crisis Mode With Confirmed Norovirus

Chipotle returns to crisis mode with confirmed norovirus By Susan Young | Posted: March 10, 2016 The calendar hasn’t been kind to Chipotle. Exactly one month after the Mexican fast-food chain temporarily closed all of its U.S. restaurants to hold staff meetings on food safety, the ugly norovirus has reared its ugly head. On Tuesday, a restaurant in Billerica, Massachusetts, voluntarily shut …



Judge Dismisses Part of Scranton Class Action Rental Lawsuit – News

A Lackawanna County judge issued a mixed ruling Tuesday in a lawsuit that challenges Scranton’s rental registration fee, finding that individual landlords cannot proceed as a class to recover excess fees they contend are illegal. The decision by Judge Terrence Nealon does not end the case, however. He must still decide whether to certify the lawsuit as a class action relating to the underlying …


Did Hortonworks CEO Take One for the Team?

When Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden took questions from analysts during the company’s earnings call on Feb. 10, Barclays managing director Raimo Lenschow put him on the spot. Lenschow wanted to know what Hortonworks — the provider of big data crunching Apache Open Source Hadoop — was going to do to stop employee attrition, given how far the value of their stock options had fallen. “Have you …


More Families File Suit Against Flint Over Lead Poisoning

Volunteers distribute bottled water to help combat the effects of the crisis when the city’s drinking water became contaminated with dangerously high levels of lead in Flint, Michigan, March 5, 2016. the latest lawsuit against over the crisis was launched on Thursday. Photo by Jim Young/Reuters Multiple families in Flint, Michigan filed a lawsuit this week seeking financial recompense from the …


Cryptsy’s Stolen $6m of Cryptocurrencies to Be Recovered?

Are we about to witness a breakthrough in the case of the missing $6 million in cryptocurrencies that Cryptsy claims were stolen by a hacker? could be. The bitcoin exchange has just publicly released a “Reward Contract” signed with an anonymous hacker that goes by the alias Cryptcracker​.