June 11, 2018
A federal judge ruled Monday that New Jersey law governs a group of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island truckers' proposed class action alleging National Freight Inc. misclassified them as independent contractors and made illegal wage deductions, saying the claims, parties and relationships under dispute are most connected to the Garden State.
September 27, 2016
A New Jersey federal judge on Monday denied National Freight Inc.'s efforts to dismiss claims that it violated Massachusetts law by misclassifying a putative class of delivery drivers as independent contractors instead of employees, saying the drivers' claims aren't preempted by federal law enacted to enforce deregulation of motor carriers.