From our friends at the LAWMEDBLOG

It has been over 8 months since we updated our readers on the lawsuit filed by former students against Florida’s Wolford College Nurse Anesthesia Program and Collier Anesthesia PA. You may recall that both the College and Collier have mutual owners and interests. Here is a “legalese” summary of the complaint filed in the case, titled Schumann et al. v Collier Anesthesia, P.A. et al., from court papers:


On June 29, 2012, plaintiffs Billy Schumann and Dustin Abraham filed a Complaint against defendants Collier Anesthesia, P.A. (Collier), Wolford College, LLC (Wolford), Thomas L. Cook, and Lynda M. Waterhouse, on their own behalf and on behalf of other similarly situated individuals for minimum wage and overtime compensation relief under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In the Complaint, plaintiffs allege that they were employed by Collier within the meaning of 29 U.S.C. § 203(g) as interns who were provided no monetary compensation; that they were registered nurses that did not have a valid license or certificate to practice medicine and did not ...