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• Title: Colonial Insurance Co. v. Anderson
• Author : Minnesota Court of Appeals
• Release Date : January 02, 1999
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 56 KB

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This appeal concerns a class action lawsuit brought under the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act (MFLSA or the Act) by a group of claims representatives against their employer, Farmers Insurance Exchange (Farmers). A jury found that the claims representatives were misclassified as "exempt," but the jury awarded no compensatory damages. Based on the conclusion that Farmers violated the MFLSA by misclassifying the claims representatives and failing to keep any time records for them, the district court granted injunctive relief and ordered Farmers to pay $376,000 in civil penalties and $1.8 million in attorney fees to the claims representatives. The court of appeals affirmed in part as modified, reversed in part, and remanded. The court of appeals concluded that the district court had the authority to issue an injunction and impose civil penalties, but that civil penalties are payable to the state and the use of a multiplier in calculating the attorney fee award is inappropriate. We affirm in part and reverse in part and hold that

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