Washington July 20 2022 G4S Secure Solutions agreed to a $1,758,625 class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it violated federal law with unfair background checks. The settlement benefits G4S Secure Solutions employees and applicants to whom the company provided an Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) disclosure and authorization fund since July 21, 2019. G4S […]
MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. July 16 2022 More than three years after security guard Jemel Roberson was shot and killed by a south suburban police officer, the family has settled with Midlothian police for more than $7 million. Roberson’s mother told CBS 2’s Jermont Terry Wednesday that money won’t stop her fight for justice. Roberson, 26, was working […]
Richmond VA July 14, 2022 One of the country’s largest operators of armored security trucks has become one of the latest targets of a class action under Illinois’ biometrics privacy law, as employees claim Brink’s Inc. has improperly required them to scan their fingerprints to verify their identities when they access the secured rear of the […]
TAMPA, Fla July 11 2022 Three former Disney employees are suing the company over masking and vaccine requirements for COVID-19, saying they were fired over lack of compliance. The three plaintiffs, residents of Florida, say their religious liberty was violated by the termination and requirements enforced by Disney. The employees — Barbara Andreas, Stephen J. […]
SURFSIDE, Fla. June 24, 2022– More than half of the settlement in the civil case penalizing about 40 entities for the Surfside building collapse comes from a security company, attorneys familiar with the settlement said. Securitas, the building’s security contractor, had a guard on duty on June 24, 2021, at Champlain Towers South. The guard […]
Oxford MI June 20 2022 A group of students who attend a Michigan high school where a deadly mass shooting took place late last year are suing the district to force policy changes ahead of the new academic year. About 20 students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Oxford Community School District and several […]
Philadelphia PA June 9th, 2022 A lawsuit has been filed against Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia after a nursing assistant was murdered there last fall. The lawsuit alleges that the hospital’s security failures resulted in the murder of nursing assistant Anrae James on Oct. 4, 2021. The alleged gunman Stacey Hayes is accused […]
Prince Gorge County MD June 6, 2022 A jury has awarded a Maryland man $250,000 after finding that security guards at Six Flags America had falsely imprisoned him on Father’s Day four years ago after his frantic search for his son, according to his lawyers. Nicholaus Mims, of Prince George’s County, Md., had rushed shirtless from […]
CHARLESTON WV June 6 2022 – A security guard says he was constructively terminated because the motel where he worked refused to follow safety protocols at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. James Elam filed his complaint May 26 in Kanawha Circuit Court against CACE Inc. doing business as Sleep Inn in Cross Lanes. According to […]
Montgomery County MD May 29, 2022 A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that argued that a Montgomery County, Maryland, mall and its security company were liable for the death of one man and the injury of another during a shooting spree in 2016. On May 5, 2016, Eulalio Tordil killed his estranged wife […]