Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) is, at times, viewed by some employers as a way to control costs. (For a primer on EPLI, check out my prior posts here and here.) Why? Because employers believe that these policies will cover all of their wrongful discharge claims and the insurer will not read its policy narrowly
Court Dismisses Employment Claim After Concluding Employee Committed Perjury During Trial
It’s the stuff of television shows.
In the middle of trial, a plaintiff (who is claiming his employment was terminated, among other reasons, in retaliation of his exercise of FMLA rights) drops a bombshell:
[In the prior October], I learned that I had — have stage III prostate cancer with a metastatic brain lesion."
While
Corrective Action Memorandum Not a Contract, Says District Court
UPDATED 2/10/09
Sometimes, by coincidence, two unrelated decision get released in close proximity to one another that they bring some greater clarity to the law.
Yesterday, I discussed a Connecticut Superior Court ca
se that found that certain discussions did not create an employment contract and that the employee was properly classified as "at-will".
Earlier
Conn. Appellate Court: Employer Was Justified in Firing Employee Who Refused a Return to Work Medical Examination
The Connecticut Appellate Court today ruled that an employer did not wrongfully discharge an employee who refused to participate in a return to work medical examination. The Court held that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) allows for medical examinations in certain situations and that the employer was justified in asking for one in this case.
In Joyner v.
ESPN Settles Lawsuit with Former Baseball Analyst Harold Reynolds
A contentious litigation between Bristol, Connecticut based-ESPN and its former baseball analyst, 
Harold Reynolds, was settled on Tuesday, according to a report by the Associated Press.
The lawsuit, filed in Hartford Superior Court in the fall of 2006, stemmed from Reynolds termination in the summer of 2006. Reynolds sued claiming "he was
Wrongful Discharge Claim For Reporting Bar Manager Rejected by Jury
A recent article by the Connecticut Law Tribune reported on the trial of two bar workers who claimed that they were terminated in retaliation for reporting a supervisor’s alleged sexual harassment of a waitress. According to court records In the trial of Daniel Van Kruiningen and Kimberly Chatterton v. Plan B, LLC d/b/a Mohegan