Cardinal Innovations agrees to pay $748K to settle federal wage dispute with employees

Cardinal Innovations has agreed to pay $748,527 in gross settlement fees to resolve a federal class-action lawsuit involving claims of violation of federal wage standards affecting about 100 employees.

The settlement notice was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.

The lawsuit by primary plaintiff Molly Kirkpatrick of York, S.C., and seven others was filed in August 2016. She is employed by Cardinal as an intellectual/development disability (I/DD) care coordinator.

Kirkpatrick claims that Cardinal, under the management of now-fired chief executive Richard Topping Jr. and oversight of a since-disbanded board of directors, violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act by not providing overtime pay for work outside 40 hours a week “that takes them outside the learned-professional exemption.”

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Cardinal is the largest of the state’s seven behavioral-health managed-care organizations, with more than 875,000 enrollees.

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