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USF Student Takes Second in National Writing Competition
April 7, 2008 -- USF law student Juliana Poindexter 3L earned second place in the Louis Jackson National Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law. The competition is co-sponsored by Chicago-Kent College of Law and Jackson Lewis LLP.
Poindexter's paper, "Has the FLSA Failed to Adapt to the New Information and Service Economy? The Case of Insurance Adjusters," analyzes the exempt status of insurance claim adjusters in the 2004 changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act. "Insurance claim adjusters offer an illustrative case of how the FLSA scheme is not fulfilling the goals it was intended to serve when it was enacted," Poindexter said. "Insurance claim adjusters are often underpaid and overworked and have been the subject of multiple lawsuits under the FLSA."
Poindexter wrote the paper for employment law, a course she took with Professor Michelle Travis. "By studying the actual working conditions of employees in the insurance claims industry, she demonstrated how the formal legal rules have failed to keep up with significant changes in the labor market," Travis said. "Her work is an important contribution to the area of wage/hour regulation, and hopefully it will help policymakers and judges re-think the scope of federal overtime laws."
To learn more about the competition and read Poindexter's paper online, visit http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/plel/LouisJacksonNWC.html.
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