NU Online News Service, June 21, 2:10 p.m.

Walmart may be the most frequent defendant named in wage-and-hour lawsuits, but insurers and pharmaceutical companies are also caught up in a maze of rules they did not know applied to certain subsets of their workforce, experts said.

The bigger surprise is that the impacted workers also did not know the rules applied to them, according to David Bradford, executive vice president of New York-based Advisen.

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