December 01, 2025
Nurses who accused an insurer of misclassifying them as overtime-exempt can keep their collective in place and proceed as a class, a North Carolina federal judge said in an order entered Monday, keeping in place a magistrate judge's recommendation.
May 19, 2025
Elevance Health's argument that nurses make life-saving decisions that require they exercise discretion over their work is exaggerated, workers told a North Carolina federal court, arguing they are entitled to overtime wages and should continue to proceed as a collective.
April 28, 2025
Health insurer Elevance can't justify its decision to deny nurses overtime wages using one of the exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act, a collective of workers told a North Carolina federal court, asking for a pretrial win in their suit.
August 04, 2023
A North Carolina federal court should allow a nurse to send notices to other workers for a health insurance company informing them of the opportunity to join her unpaid overtime collective action, she said, telling the court the situation is common enough to warrant class treatment.