Fresenius Fails to Get Federal Class Action Wage Suit Dismissed

A former Fresenius Medical Care Holdings Inc. nurse can proceed with his proposed federal class action lawsuit over allegedly unpaid wages, even as a similar suit takes place in state court, a federal judge said.

The company, one of the nation’s largest kidney dialysis providers, and subsidiary, Bio-Medical Applications of California Inc., failed to persuade the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts that Jonathan Azurin’s lawsuit should be dismissed or paused until a ruling comes down in a separate proposed class action against the companies,Calderon v. Bio-Medical Applications of Mission Hills.

“Defendants have established parallelism ...