A New Jersey debt-collection agency and its in-house lawyer have been hit with a $695,000 race-bias verdict in favor of an employee the lawyer didn't even know. A federal court jury found that Laurence Hecker of Toms River, N.J., and APM Financial Services, the debt-collection servicing company he represented, were dual employers and therefore jointly liable for discriminating against a black employee, Steven Bess, even though the alleged bias was perpetrated by an APM supervisor.
April 08, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A New Jersey debt-collection agency and its in-house lawyer have been hit with a $695,000 race-bias verdict in favor of an employee the lawyer didn’t even know.
A federal court jury in Trenton, N.J., found that Laurence Hecker of Toms River, N.J., and APM Financial Services, the debt-collection servicing company he represented, were dual employers and therefore jointly liable for discriminating against a black employee, Steven Bess.
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