A California federal jury awarded a former PPG Industries employee over $2 million in a whistleblower suit after finding he was wrongfully terminated for revealing how PPG's upper management "stole" paint through a "mis-tinting" scheme targeting Lowe's in Southern California.
On May 1, a jury for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California awarded Wallen "Wally" Lawson, 74, a former PPG territory manager, $2 million for emotional distress damages and $20,000 in back pay. Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel represented Lawson through nearly eight years of litigation against the paint manufacturing company after he filed a complaint in April 2018. The jury recently found that Lawson was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for calling PPG's ethics hotline in April 2017 to report his supervisor's directive to intentionally "mis-tint" its "RescueIt" paint at Lowe's stores.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Wiggin and Dana is pleased to announce the launch of its new False Claims Act (FCA) Defense and Compliance Practice Group, created in response to a s...