WHEN ARE WE GETTING LAWSUIT CHECKS IN THE MAIL?

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I am curious as well. If you read the fine print in the settlement, the claims adjuster has several deadlines to meet for processing and actually submitting the claims to novartis management. If you add up all the deadlines it appears to be late spring but there is no date specified. Also read in the fine print that novartis has a certain amount of time to respond to or comment on the claim. My question is, how can they respond on class members that no longer work there? Does the company save performance reviews, rankings, disability claims, etc...? I realize they have to weed out the gold digger illegitimate claims, but what about people who were unfairly reviewed or ranked by the company while they worked there and ended up becoming ill because of it. A large part of the lawsuit was the unfair treatment of employees, so it seems wrong that novartis gets to respond to the claim and possibly cause it to be denied. The entire time I worked there, the sales numbers were always being messed with. There were even 2 quarters where goals were not received until after the quarter ended..
 












I was originally told Feb when I first spoke with a representative from the law firm after I received my claim form. I then received another letter about a month ago that mentioned we would receive a check in March.
 


















WRONG!! The settlement is from a previous lawsuit, the settlement deals with future lawsuits. I have passed this by my attorney and a federal court judge (relative here)
 






we are getting paid in May2011. For each month during the time period indicated in the details of the lawsuit, each of us will receive 200.00. I confirmed this with the law firm handling the case.
 




































Yes that sounds correct. 200 per month is the back pay award that everyone receives unless they opted out. Anything beyond that for the discrimination rider and medical rider are up to the claims administrator. My understanding is that the backpay award is taxed because it is treated as salary. The other awards won't be taxed as pay by novartis but would probably have some type of tax implication when you do your taxes next year.
 
























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