EMS and Paratransit workforce may hold Manager Lynn Tilton personally liable for unpaid wages: Court rules

Transcare employees cleared for trial against Patriarch Partners for WARN Act back pay, as well.

Beleaguered health care responders got a boost from the Transcare’s bankruptcy court, according to Raisner Roupinian LLP, class counsel for the 1,700 Transcare employees.  The Bankruptcy Judge, Hon. Stuart M. Bernstein, strengthened their claims ahead of trial.  The Judge, last year, agreed to strike Transcare’s defense that the WARN shutdown was unforeseeable with regard to the 1,000 or so EMS/ambulance employees.  Now, in its 44-page decision, the Court has held Lynn Tilton, the CEO of Patriarch Partners, personally liable for the final unpaid wages owed to the Transcare workforce terminated in New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania.  The Court also rejected Patriarch’s bid to dismiss the WARN claims.  The Court found sufficient evidence to create a issue for trial that Patriarch was a “single employer” with Transcare, and that the shutdown was foreseeable.

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