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A class action lawsuit has been filed in United States District Court against Besm, Inc.. The case involves violations of federal labor law. No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of loan originators at Kansas based Bank of Blue Valley, Inc. The loan originators claim that they were supervised, treated, and controlled in the same manner as employees, and required to work hours far in excess of 40 per week. Notwithstanding this, the originators claim, they were paid as independent contractors on a commission basis and the amounts paid were far less than what would be required for employees, for straight pay and overtime, under federal labor laws. The loan originators seek back pay and other damages.

What do you do if the pension fund that your hopes are pinned on can't pay your benefits? A class action has been filed against trucking and air freight conglomerate CNF, Inc., and its actuarial firm, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, Inc., on behalf of former employees who allege that the companies caused the pension plan for Consolidated Freightways Company, Inc., a CNF subsidiary that CNF later spun off, to become under-funded, costing retirees millions of dollars in lost pension benefits in violation of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

A class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida against Lonocchio’s, Inc. The case involves violations of employment law pertaining to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). No additional information about the substance of the allegations is available at this time. Classactionamerica.com will monitor this case and provide additional details as soon as they become available.

A statewide collective action has been filed in Florida against Gulfstream Mining & Materials, Inc. The action is brought on behalf of all current and former employees of Gulfstream who, since December 2000, were not paid overtime compensation for all worked hours beyond 40 per week. The action is brought under the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act and seeks back pay, statutory and liquidated damages as well as injunctive and declaratory relief. This action is a collective action, and thus all potential claimants are required to "opt-in" to the case in order to be considered part of the class. The employees have requested that the court issue notice to all potential claimants so that they may join the action.

Retirement plans are often highly complex, especially when they encompass investment programs. Several class actions have been filed against Citigroup, Inc. and its subsidiaries on behalf of former employees who allege that, from 1989 to the present, the companies induced them to buy Citigroup stock and then made them forfeit it when they left the company's employment, in violation of federal securities laws.