Progressive Workers Must Revamp Wage Deal After Court Rejection

Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. and claims processors who say the company wrongly exempted them from overtime protections must fix up a release provision before a judge will approve their proposed settlement.

Workers reached a deal with the insurance company to end their wage-and-hour dispute in exchange for nearly $772,000. But their claims release provision includes “broad language” preventing the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida from approving the settlement.

The workers accuse Progressive of wrongly using the Fair Labor Standards Act’s administrative exemption to avoid paying them overtime. Magistrate Judge Embry Kidd recommended that the district ...