Labor/Employment
Mar. 27, 2025
Mentally ill homeless man wins $2.5M employment verdict
A homeless, mentally ill man won $2.5M against Alameda Health System for retaliation, interference with rights despite never appearing at trial, in an unusual employment case.
A homeless, mentally ill man has won nearly $2.5 million in an Alameda County jury verdict against his former employer for unfair dismissal without appearing at the trial, in what his attorney called an unprecedented event.
Lawrance Bohm of Bohm Law Group Inc. and Law Offices of Phil Horowitz represented the plaintiff Daniel Ridge, whose employment as a morgue attendant at Highland Hospital in Oakland had been terminated by health care group Alameda Health System after he took med...
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