Corporate Greed Case Study: National General Insurance & Its Impact on Vulnerable Drivers TL;DR: Insurance giants National General and Integon (both owned by AllState Insurance) are accused of running a predatory scheme that targeted high-risk, unsophisticated consumers. The companies allegedly…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Isle of Palms Pest Control, Inc. & Its Impact on a Homeowner TL;DR: A pest control company took a homeowner’s money for a decade under a contract for a specific, sophisticated termite baiting system. Secretly, the…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Open International & Its Impact on The City of Fort Collins TL;DR: Internal documents revealed a devastating truth: while tech contractor Open International told the City of Fort Collins that nearly 90% of its software functionalities…
TL;DR: In a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of the deceased Ryan T. Vanicek against Kenneth E. Kratt and Sandair Corporation, the justice system has prioritized corporate privacy over public transparency. A federal court order is actively shielding…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Matt Martorello and the Rent-A-Tribe Scheme’s Impact on Virginia Consumers TL;DR: An entrepreneur named Matt Martorello was the architect of a predatory lending operation that used a Native American tribe’s sovereign immunity as a shield to…
Corporate Greed Case Study: OptumRx & Its Impact on Independent Pharmacies TLDR: A new federal lawsuit claims that OptumRx, a massive pharmacy benefits manager, systematically forces independent Arkansas pharmacies to sell prescription drugs at a financial loss. OptumRX is accused…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Veolia & Its Impact on Public Works Employees TLDR: A corporation managing a city’s water systems is using a custom-written state law to argue it doesn’t have to pay its employees the standard prevailing wage for…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Renesas Electronics & Its Impact on Innovation TLDR Under the guise of a potential merger, electronics giant Renesas (then Intersil) exploited a confidentiality agreement to steal trade secrets from a smaller competitor, TAOS. After gaining access…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Best Inn Midwest & Its Impact on the Indianapolis Community TL;DR: An Indianapolis hotel, plagued by health code violations and crime, was forced to close by the city. When its owner, Best Inn Midwest, LLC, filed…
Wage Theft in Plain Sight: How NYC Stole Millions from its First Responders TL;DR A jury found the City of New York and the FDNY liable for willfully violating federal labor law by stealing wages from 2,519 of its own…