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A federal judge has granted class action status in a former claim adjuster’s lawsuit accusing GEICO of violating federal and state overtime laws.
District Court Judge Denise J. Casper has certified the class as all auto, residential, and catastrophic damage adjusters who worked for GEICO in Massachusetts at any time between October 2018 and March 2021.
The suit, Pugliese v. GEICO, seeks unpaid overtime wages that it says are owed to more than 50 current and former adjusters, as well as applicable statutory damages.
Former adjuster Marc Pugliese filed suit against GEICO on Oct. 6, 2021 in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, claiming that he and other adjusters had been pressured not to report the overtime hours they routinely worked.
Pugliese claims the insurer directed him and other adjusters to always report working 7.75 hours each workday, or 38.75 hours each week, even though they “regularly and customarily” put in eight to 10 hours a day, or as many as 50 hours a week.
He also asserts that adjusters were routinely not paid for working through their 45-minute meal periods.
The under-reporting of hours worked was ordered to “ensure overtime and, by extension, time-and-one-half overtime wages would not be due and owing to non-exempt employees like the Plaintiff and other GEICO Adjusters performing duties in Massachusetts,” the complaint says.
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