GeicoRobinson-Smith v. GEICO and Lindsay v. GEICO Cohen Milstein currently represents two nationwide classes of over four hundred GEICO Auto Damage Adjusters in two separate lawsuits challenging GEICO's refusal to pay Auto Damage Adjusters overtime when they work more than 40 hours a week. Specifically, the lawsuits challenge GEICO's decision to classify Auto Damage Adjusters as administrative employees who are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. After three years of litigation, on July 1, 2004, United States District Judge Paul Friedman found in Robinson-Smith v. GEICO that GEICO Auto Damage Adjusters were improperly classified as administrative employees, and are entitled to be paid overtime when they worked more than 40 hours a week. As a result, the Auto Damage Adjusters who joined Robinson-Smith are presumptively entitled to double the amount of money they should have been paid in overtime wages for at least the two years before they joined the lawsuit. Equally importantly, following Judge Friedman's ruling GEICO changed its overtime policy and has now begun paying its Auto Damage Adjusters overtime. If you have any questions about whether you are entitled to overtime pay, or whether you have been misclassified as exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act and/or your state's overtime laws, please do not hesitate to call Jenny Yang, one of the attorneys at Cohen Milstein representing GEICO's Auto Damage Adjusters and focusing on employment law, at 1-888-347-4600 or email jyang@cmht.com.
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