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UPDATE 09/23/2024 On May 16th, 2024, the court granted final approval of the settlement. The settlement includes a guaranteed payment of $1.2 million and a contingent payment of up to $250,000 from the bankruptcy estate’s winddown budget.  The winddown of the PGX estate is nearing completion. The settlement of up to $1.45 million is inclusive […]

UPDATE 08/01/2024 On August 1, 2024, we sent an email update to our retained clients.  If you completed our retainer agreement and did not receive this email update, please check your spam folder, or contact us. PREVIOUS UPDATE Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action complaint on May 4, 2023, in the United States District

UPDATE 10/10/2024 On April 4, 2024, the Court certified the WARN case as a class action, appointed the Plaintiff as the class representative, and Raisner Roupinian LLP as Class Counsel. The certified class (the “Class”) is defined as Plaintiff and all persons who worked at or reported to Defendants’ facility located at 61 Broadway, 30th

UPDATE 04/25/2023 In response to Defendants’ Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing, Raisner Roupinian LLP transferred their class action complaint to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware where the bankruptcy is pending. PREVIOUS UPDATE Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action complaint on February 28, 2023, against American Car Center, LLC, American Financial,

UPDATE 10/23/2024 Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action suit on July 1, 2022, against Optum Inc., Insight Global LLC, Apex Systems Inc., Equity Staffing Group Inc., and Adecco USA Inc., (collectively “Defendants”), seeking to recover 60 days’ wages and benefits for former employees under the federal and New York Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification  (“WARN”) Acts,

UPDATE 09/23/2024 On August 26, 2024, the Court granted preliminary approval of a $1,100,000 class action settlement.  On September 4, 2024, notice of the settlement was mailed by first class mail to members of the class.  A hearing is scheduled for October 29, 2024, at which the Court will decide whether to grant final approval of

UPDATE 03/18/2024 Recently, the Bankruptcy Court converted Debtors’ case from chapter 11 to chapter 7 to conserve estate resources pending the outcome of certain litigation between TCB and Ginnie Mae that may generate sufficient funds to pay RMIT creditor claims, including employee WARN claims.  Accordingly, the WARN class action litigation is stayed pending the outcome

UPDATE 10/04/2023 On December 30, 2022, United Furniture Industries, UFI California, Inc., UFI Transportation, Inc., LS Logistics, Inc.  (collectively “UFI” or “Debtors”) was placed into involuntary bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (the “Bankruptcy Court”).  Accordingly, on January 3, 2023, Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action complaint in the Bankruptcy

UPDATE 04/18/2022 Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a class action suit on April 11, 2022, against Xtend Healthcare, LLC and Staff Management Solutions, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”), seeking to recover 60 days wages and benefits for former employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification  (“WARN”) Act and the New Jersey WARN Act (the “WARN Acts”).  We contend Defendants’ ordered mass

UPDATE 10/22/2024 Raisner Roupinian LLP filed a lawsuit on August 2, 2021, against Center for Excellence in Higher Education, (“CEHE”), seeking to recover 60 days wages and benefits for former employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification  (“WARN”) Act.  We contend CEHE ordered mass layoffs at its facilities on or about August 2, 2021, without