A Michigan-based fiber optics installer, Teracom Inc., will pay $594,274 in back pay and damages to 63 employees after the U.S. Department of Labor found the company misclassified them as independent contractors. Additionally, a Houston federal judge has ordered a Texas trio to pay over $1.5 million in statutory damages to Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP for willfully using the firm's name for their mediation business.