The False Claims Act works - Times Republican
Four decades ago, on Oct. 27, 1986, President Ronald Reagan signed into law my bipartisan updates to the False Claims Act. At the time, I never imagined this sharpened Civil War-era tool would rec...
Workforce Bulletin - Insights on Labor and Employment Law | Epstein Becker Green - Epstein Becker Green
A federal jury recently awarded three workers approximately $180 million in damages for injuries sustained in a 2010 explosion at a grain elevator owned by ConAgra Foods, Inc. See Jentz v. Conagra Foods, Inc., No. 3:10-cv-00747 (S.D.I. June 1, 2012). At the one-month trial in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, the plaintiffs alleged that ConAgra and West Side Salvage Inc., a maintenance contractor and co-defendant, were liable for their injuries because they failed to:
- Clean the grain bin properly;
- Maintain wheat middling pellets (flour ...
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