Southern Unit Is Told to Pay $2 Million to Whistleblower

The Wall Street Journal
Published On: October 9th, 1998

This article features Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto’s founding partner, Michael D. Kohn.

An administrative-law judge ruled that Southern Co.’s Georgia Power unit pay $250,000 in compensatory damages plus about $1.75 million in back pay to a whistleblower. The U.S. Labor Department judge also ruled that Georgia Power reinstate the whistleblower, Marvin B. Hobby, in a comparable job and pay his attorneys’ fees.

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