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Bankrupt Hospice Pays Nearly $3M To Settle Charges

Published on Fri Sep 19, 2014

A big chunk of San Diego Hospice’s remaining assets are going to its former employees — or at least their lawyers. The hospice, which declared bankruptcy last year after a federal audit, has paid $2.84 million to 590 employees who joined a class-action suit alleging Worker Adjustment Retraining and Notifi-cation Act violations, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune. That law requires [...]
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