An Oakland, Calif., jury Thursday whacked Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with a $172 million verdict -- including $115 million in punitive damages -- for failing to provide a class of about 200,000 employees with legally mandated meal breaks. The verdict is the largest ever in a meal-break class action in California, said one of the attorneys representing the plaintiff class. The employment bar has been closely watching such class actions, which are seen as an area of great potential liability for employers.
December 23, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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An Oakland, Calif., jury Thursday whacked Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with a $172 million verdict — including $115 million in punitive damages — for failing to provide a class of about 200,000 employees with legally-mandated meal breaks.
The verdict, said Frederick Furth, who represented the plaintiff class with three other lawyers at the Furth Firm, is the largest ever in a meal-break class action in California.
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