Sentences with phrase «work than plaintiff»

The nature of his job doing heavy physical work places him in a more precarious position at work than the plaintiff in Rutledge v. Jimmie, 2014 BCSC 41.

Not exact matches

«We will continue working on behalf of our courageous plaintiffs to show that Arizona can do better than this disgraceful law,» she said in a statement.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs today announced their filing of a collective action lawsuit against Darden Restaurants, the world's largest full - service restaurant group, alleging servers were paid less than the minimum wage and were not compensated for time they were required to work off the clock.

The Match lawsuit was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles by plaintiff Matthew Evans, who contends he went out with a woman he met through the site who turned out to be nothing more than «date bait» working for the company.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.

However, in this case the defense team was betting on the 50 % rule, which works like this: if the defense team could convince the jury that the plaintiff (my client, the injured motorcyclist) is more than 50 % at fault for the crash, the defendant (the negligent minivan driver) would not have to pay for non-economic damages, which include pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, scarring and disfigurement, and other long - term problems as a result of the crash.

Doctors permanently restricted the plaintiff from lifting more than 20 pounds, which means he can no longer work in his previous profession.

The court ruled that the plaintiff waited too long to get a lien, but they claimed that the defendant was very demanding and it required more work than anticipated.

In addition, try and talk to attorneys who work on both sides — you might decide you want to do defense work rather than being a plaintiff's attorney.

The plaintiff was off work for a considerably longer period than the plaintiff in Wepryk v. Juraschka, 2012 BCSC 974.

Apologies that merely expressed sympathy worked only inconsistently because many plaintiffs took them to be insincere, which sometimes caused more indignation on the plaintiff's part, rather than less.

Finally, the sophisticated diagnostic tools turned on this improved data set allowed the Plaintiffs to lay their hands on crucial documents months earlier than their former work process would have allowed.

The plaintiff, rather than continue to work through his notice period and, at its conclusion, commenced a claim for wrongful dismissal, immediately resigned from his employment.

In particular he calculated that over his remaining working life the Plaintiff would make $ 269,662 less in income in golf management with promotion after ten years than he would have as a journeyman plumber.

[95] The plaintiff is also less able to perform her household work than she was and has received assistance from her children.

But even in a case where they are sometimes plaintiffs, like custody, an attorney can actually cause a * decrease * in filings by explaining to a parent exactly what they need to do to regain custody of their children and work with them to accomplish those goals, rather than the parent filing loads of duplicate motions to modify custody, as they often do when pro se.

For plaintiff firms, external capital would provide the resources they need to work during the time they are not getting paid, and enable the firms to mitigate the risk by sharing it with investors, rather than obliging the partners to take it all on.

Based on findings that the «severe or pervasive» standard «unduly narrows the reach of the law,» the NYCHRL requires a plaintiff claiming a hostile work environment to prove «that she has been treated less well than other employees because of her gender.»

rather than working with Plaintiffs from the outset to reach agreement on appropriate and comprehensive search terms and methods, [Defendant] undertook the task in secret.»

[146] In retrospect, the defendants may rue the day when they unleashed the plaintiff on their suppliers rather than spending the time to work on her designs with her and collect standard samples for each design element and samples for those items where upgrades would be offered to her.

We are far larger than any other firm that does a significant amount of plaintiffs» work, a fact that makes us uniquely suited to go head - to - head against the biggest corporations in the world.

Fixing legitimate warranty items is one thing, but many developers feel extorted by the demands of the contingent plaintiff lawyers who cash in on large settlements with insurance companies (sometimes earning fees larger than the actual repair work).