Chairman Gwendolyn Scales
A resident of Detroit, Michigan, Gwendolyn is an international recording artist, singer/songwriter, business owner, and exercise guru.
Gwen started her music career at age four and emerged as a recording artist while in college. While on the road with such noted artists as Motown’s Hamilton Bohannon, former Warner Brothers’ recording artist David Peaston, and many local Detroit bands she continued to hone her own unique style of singing.
Gwendolyn and her husband Charles are co-owners of Urban Jazz Contemporary Records and CGS Entertainment, an entertainment booking agency. Their production house, Perfect Fifth Productions, has released five albums to date with several others currently in production.
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A plaintiff could not get his Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action remanded to state court after a Pennsylvania federal court found he had standing to remain in federal court.
The case is
Walker v. Highmark BCBSD Health Options, Inc. The plaintiff, Christopher James Walker, accused Highmark of placing unsolicited automated/prerecorded calls to his cellphone, and those of putative class members, without consent.
Walker filed suit in Pennsylvania state court in November 2020. Highmark removed the case to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania the following month.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Usually, it is the plaintiff that argues he or she was injured, not the defendant. But, in an effort to stay in state court, some TCPA plaintiffs have taken the counterintuitive position that they did not suffer an injury in fact under Article III of the U.S. Constitution and, therefore, their claims cannot be heard in federal court.
“[T]o satisfy Article III’s standing requirements, a plaintiff must show (1) it has suffered an ‘injury in fact’ that is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical; (2) the injury is fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant; and (3) it is likely, as opposed to merely speculative, that the injury will be redressed by a favorable decision.”
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Nichols Kaster, PLLP and Berger Montague PC announce that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation, and Health Options Inc. (collectively, Defendants) have paid $25,000.00 to a former Concurrent Review Nurse for unpaid overtime wages.
The nurse filed a lawsuit on September 4, 2020, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida,
Riviere v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc., et al., No. 1:20-cv-23709-CMA (S.D. Fla.), alleging that Defendants violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA ) by misclassifying her and other utilization review nurses as exempt and not paying additional compensation for their overtime hours worked. Defendants denied liability but offered to have judgment entered against them and agreed to pay $25,000.00 to the named plaintiff, plus reasonable attorneys fees and costs. Judgment was entere
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AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of UPMC Health Plan, Inc. and Its Affiliates; Assigns Credit Ratings to WorkPartners National, Inc.
December 16, 2020 GMT
OLDWICK, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) Dec 16, 2020
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” of UPMC Health Plan, Inc. and its affiliates: UPMC For You, Inc., UPMC Health Network, Inc., UPMC Health Coverage, Inc., UPMC Health Options, Inc. and Community Care Behavioral Health Organization (CCBH). Collectively, the group is referred to as UPMC Health Plans. The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable.