Ashburn VA December 19 2020 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday a Virginia-based security services firm will pay $1.6 million to settle the agency’s systemic national origin and retaliation discrimination lawsuit. The EEOC said in its statement that Ashburn, Virginia-based MVM Inc. provided securities services for the National Institute of Health on each of […]
Dallas TX Dec 13 2020 A man who safely translated for the US Army in Afghanistan, only to be crippled by the bullets of criminals in Dallas, is suing the people who put him in the American danger zone. Mahir Amiri came to Dallas with his family after helping Americans in his native country. Through a […]
Lake Charles LA Dec 5 2020 A security guard who was injured by a psychiatric patient while on duty is entitled to supplemental earning benefits and penalties, an appellate court ruled Wednesday. In Landry v. Lofton Security Service Inc., the Louisiana Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, in Lake Charles reversed a workers compensation judge’s ruling denying […]
Amherst Virginia November 4 2020 Parts of a lawsuit filed over an Amherst County man who was shot and paralyzed after seeking treatment during a psychotic episode in 2016 have survived legal challenges, a judge determined Monday. Ruth Ann Warner first filed suit against Centra Health on behalf of her son, Jonathan Warner, in August 2017. […]
HOUSTON TX Oct 4 2020— A family still has questions about why their loved one had to die. Jeffrey Taylor, 32, was shot and killed in a shopping center parking lot in July, and a security guard is charged with his murder. “It’s devastating,” said Howard Murray, his father. From their home in Illinois, he […]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Oct 4 2020— A livery driver was trying to collect his fare from a passenger who stiffed him but got a beating instead, according to a lawsuit and the driver’s lawyer. Efehi Izevbuwa had followed the female passenger into the Staten Island Mall on Oct. 12, 2017, when he was assaulted […]
MIAMI FL Sept 25 2020 – Miami-Dade County and Allied Universal security failed to take action quickly enough to prevent the attack of an elderly man on a Metromover train Sunday morning, an attorney representing Eduardo Fernandez and his family says. Fernandez, 73, suffered broken bones and internal injuries in the violent beating, which came a […]
Penn Forest Township Pa Sept 24 2020 A resident of the Indian Mountain Lake development has sued the homeowners association alleging his privacy was invaded when two “large security guards” came to his home in a threatening manner over a dispute at an entrance area of the development. The suit filed in Carbon County court […]
BATON ROUGE, La. Sept 16 2020 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing nation-wide security company Allied Universal for allegedly discriminating against one of its female employees in Baton Rouge. The EEOC alleges that when U.S. Security Associates, which does business as Allied Universal, found out a female employee was pregnant, it reassigned her to […]
TEXARKANA, Ark. Sept 13 2020— A woman who claims she was seriously injured in March when a security guard accidentally knocked her through a plate glass window during a Mardi Gras party is suing in Miller County circuit court. Moniqueka Whitaker filed suit this week with the help of Texarkana lawyer Monty Murry against Bernard […]