Air Methods Flight Paramedics Get First OK of $4 Million Deal

A class of 634 Air Methods Corp. flight paramedics and nurses Tuesday convinced a federal judge in Colorado to give an initial greenlight to a $4 million deal that would end a lawsuit alleging they were denied overtime pay.

Plaintiffs sued on behalf of current and former flight paramedics and nurses in Illinois and Michigan in February 2019, saying the company failed to pay overtime for all hours, including “sleep time,” worked in excess of 40 hours in a week. Plaintiffs later added claimants based in New Mexico, and Judge R. Brooke Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the ...