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Litigation

Apr. 24, 2013

Hospital system faces labor lawsuit

A shuttered Southern California hospital system faces a civil lawsuit from the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, which asks for nearly $101 million on behalf of the company's laid-off employees.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A shuttered Southern California hospital system faces a civil lawsuit from the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, which asks for nearly $101 million on behalf of the company's laid-off employees.


The lawsuit, filed last week, claims Pacific Health Corp. paid workers with checks that bounced and never paid insurance premiums with money deducted from paychecks for that purpose. The system a...

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