7-Eleven, Inc. recently reached a whopping $2 million settlement  to settle a background check class action lawsuit over the company’s background check policies. The background check class action lawsuit alleged that the company failed to provide standalone notice of background checks to 60,000 job applicants in the class. The applicant, Edwardo Munoz, claimed in his class […]

In a Roanoke Times Article the survivor of the 2015 Bridgewater Plaza shooting sues WDBJ over the on-camera shooting. During the attack, two news crew members were shot and killed, and a disgruntled former WDBJ employee was behind the shooting. The complaint, filed by Vicki Gardner, is seeking $6 million in damages and states that WDBJ […]

The amount of money paid by employers to settle Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) lawsuits over the period 2011 to 2019 is about $326 million dollars. The average payout was $2,2 million dollars. The highest amount was $28 million dollars. The lowest was $40 thousand dollars. And the Median amount was $723 thousand dollars.  There […]

Madison Square Garden (MSG) has agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a class action lawsuit that claimed MSG violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act 15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq. and the New York State Fair Credit Reporting Act Gen. Bus. Law § 380 et seq., It is alleged in the lawsuit Madison Square […]

An analysis of workplace theft during 2018 was issued by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. It revealed some startling statistics concerning workplace theft. Their report is here . This blog post summarizes some of the study’s key findings in the area of workplace theft. These summaries will hopefully illuminate the ways fraud is committed […]