In the case of the salesman who wouldn’t sell, the two sides have starkly different tales to tell. Greg Saffer says conscience and common sense prevented him from pushing the product his bosses wanted him to sell – “Option ARM” home loans that, he says, put homeowners at risk. “I’m not going to steer people […]

Carney Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm representing employees, obtained a discrimination jury verdict Monday for $925,000 in favor of his client, Rene Coello, in downtown Los Angeles Superior Court. Shegerian’s client worked for global fertilizer corporation Grow More for six years in various […]

Rite Aid must pay $500,000 in damages to a former longtime employee who claims she was harassed after suffering an on-the-job injury, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury determined today. Doreen Betson sued the drug store chain in December 2009, claiming workplace disability harassment, failure to reasonably accommodate her because of her disability and defamation. […]

A California jury on Tuesday ordered Ivy Hill Corp., a company that packages products for the entertainment industry, to pay $1.27 million to a former employee who claims she was harassed because of her age. The jury in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, found in favor of Judee […]

Carney R. Shegerian, an employee rights attorney and founder of Shegerian & Associates, discloses that on Tuesday, a Los Angeles jury found for a former employee against TapouT, the clothing company, for wrongful termination. The jury awarded a total of just over $3.2 million dollars on the lawsuit filed in the downtown superior court in […]