SETTLEMENT APPROVED IN WARN CLASS ACTION
UPDATE 06/30/2026
We sent a confidential attorney-client email to class members for whom we had email addresses on file on June 23, 2026. Please contact us if you are a class member and did not receive this email.
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Raisner Roupinian LLP filed suit on May 13, 2016, against Excel Homes Group, LLC, Excel Homes of Virginia, LLC, Excel Homes of Maine, LLC, Excel Homes of New York, LLC, Innovative Buildings Systems, LLC, Innovative Design and Building Services, LLC, Innovative Shared Services, LLC, AAH of Indiana, LLC, AAH of Iowa, LLC, HandCrafted Enterprises, LLC and HandCrafted Holdings, LLC (collectively “IBS”) seeking to recover 60 days wages and benefits for former employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act. We contend IBS ordered mass layoffs on or about May 3, 2016, without providing its employees with advance written notice. The case is pending in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Subsequently, on November 13, 2024, the Court granted preliminary approval of a settlement of the WARN class action. The Court also certified the WARN class action, appointed the Plaintiff as the class representative, and Raisner Roupinian LLP as Class Counsel.
The certified class (the “Class”) is defined as all persons who worked at or reported to Defendants’ qualified sites who suffered an employment loss on or about May 3, 2016, or as the reasonably foreseeable consequence of a mass layoff and/or plant closing by the Defendant per the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act.
Notice of this class action was mailed to class members on November 27, 2024, and the settlement was approved on December 19, 2024, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
The amount available for distribution to the Class will depend on the amount of funds available in the IBS bankruptcy estates at the conclusion of those bankruptcy cases.
WARN ACT
Raisner Roupinian LLP will provide you with information regarding your rights in this WARN class action. The federal WARN Act requires companies with at least 100 full-time employees to provide them with 60 days’ written notice in advance of a mass layoff or plant closing. Additionally, certain states also have WARN Acts.
Without the required notice, an employer may be liable for 60 days’ wages and benefits to each affected employee.
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