Technologist files class action lawsuit claiming imaging provider violated labor laws
A technologist is accusing an imaging provider of violating state labor laws and she is seeking others to join the complaint.
Plaintiff attorneys claim Digirad Imaging Solutions failed to pay minimum wages or overtime, along with shirking laws requiring regular meal and rest periods. Dea Logsdon and her representatives also allege that the Suwanee, Georgia-headquartered firm failed to reimburse required expenses and provide itemized wage statements, among other charges.
“[Digirad’s] practices were unlawful and unfair in that these practices violate public policy, were immoral, unethical, oppressive, unscrupulous or substantially injurious to employees, and were without valid justification…,” attorneys wrote in the complaint, filed last month in San Diego County Superior Court.
Logsdon—a nuclear medicine technologist with Digirad since 2019, who was still employed there at the time of the filing—and her attorneys are seeking class action status and damages under $5 million. They’re also asking a judge to bar the company from engaging in “similar unlawful conduct” and want the firm forced to give up its “ill-gotten gains” from allegedly underpaying employees.
Digirad did not immediately respond to a Radiology Business request for comment Monday. The company offers a range of mobile and on-site imaging solutions for physicians and healthcare systems, including staffing, equipment, accreditation assistance and a cloud based PACS, according to its website. Digirad specializes in mobile nuclear cardiology, interim nuclear equipment, and fixed-site heart imaging, among other things.
Employment law firm Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP issued an announcement about the lawsuit on Feb. 29.
Marty Stempniak has covered healthcare since 2012, with his byline appearing in the American Hospital Association's member magazine, Modern Healthcare and McKnight's. Prior to that, he wrote about village government and local business for his hometown newspaper in Oak Park, Illinois. He won a Peter Lisagor and Gold EXCEL awards in 2017 for his coverage of the opioid epidemic.