Former Insurance Employee Awarded Nearly $700,000 After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

Former Tennessee BlueCross BlueShield employee, Tanja Benton, was awarded nearly $700,000 in backpay and damages by a grand jury after she refused to take the company’s mandated COVID-19 vaccine, court filings show. A federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee found last week the insurance company owes Benton $687,240 […]
Ex-Jets employee suing team over throwback logo

A former Jets employee has filed a lawsuit against the team and the NFL, seeking unspecified damages for the Jets’ use of a logo he designed. Jim Pons filed a lawsuit alleging he came up with the design in the late ’70s while working as the Jets’ film and video director. According to the complaint […]
Eric Kay, ex-Angels employee convicted in Tyler Skaggs’ death plans to fight jail sentence

One of the people allegedly involved in the death of former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs is speaking out. Former Angels director of communications Eric Kaye, making his first media appearance since being sentenced to 22 years in prison in October, Athletic, He spoke about his new reality and his own responsibility in Skaggs’ […]
Bogus employee retention claims are mucking up IRS operations

The IRS and its internal watchdog, the National Taxpayer Advocate, are sounding the alarm about bogus Employee Retention Credit (ERC) claims that sabotage tax collection efforts. The ERC was one of many tax credits facilitated by the IRS to help keep businesses and the economy afloat during the pandemic. But despite a strong recovery and […]
Ex-JetBlue employee calls in fake bomb threat at JFK’s TWA Hotel

A disgruntled former JetBlue Airways employee was arrested Wednesday after making fake bomb threat calls and leaving a cellphone with a note reading “explosive” inside the TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport, police sources said. According to sources, Dillon D. Vista, who was laid off by the airline amid the COVID-19 pandemic, allegedly […]
Bear euthanized after injuring Tennessee theme park concession stand employee

A Tennessee black bear was euthanized after a video went viral last week of the wild animal eating gumbo at a theme park concession stand and injuring an employee, wildlife officials said. WVLT-TV reported that the bear attacked a concession stand called “Bear Can” at Anakeesta Mountaintop Adventure Park in Gatlinburg. Governor DeSantis signs bill […]
Golf Galaxy employee downs three beers then qualifies for PGA Tour event

Apparently three beers is just the right amount for this golfer. Golf Galaxy employee Nick Bienz downed a few cold beers before surviving a playoff qualifier and making it into this week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic. The 27-year-old Bienz drilled a 12-foot birdie on the 18th hole at Orchards Golf Club in Michigan to shoot 7-under […]
Suspect accused of raping, strangling Yosemite National Park employee: officials

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Titans employee, Instagram model arrested over Nashville bar row

Mary Kate Wicharonis, an inside sales executive for the Titans, was arrested after an altercation with a security guard at the Dierks Bentley-themed Whiskey Row bar on Tuesday night. According to Scoop Nashville. Wichalonis was reportedly trying to sneak her boyfriend, who had lost his ID, into the bar and then assaulted a security guard […]
Harlem Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs fired employee battling amputation health crisis: suit

A new lawsuit accuses Harlem state Assemblyman Eddie Gibbs (D-Manhattan) of wrongfully firing a former staffer who battled a health crisis that ultimately led to the amputation of his leg. In a lawsuit filed this week in Manhattan Supreme Court, Keith Lilly alleges that Gibbs discriminated against him by firing him while he was hospitalized […]