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Feb-7-14 Vancouver, BC The cyber-crime underworld is a shadowy place. Exactly what happens to the information when it slips out of the hands of trusted proprietors in a data breach event or in the case of privacy violation is not always predictable, but cyber security experts have a pretty good idea what’s going out there. “There are so many inse... - Data Breach Settlements Announced
Dec-16-15 Washington, DC: Two large-scale data breach settlements have been announced, one involving Home Depot lawsuits and the other involving claims made by the Federal Trade Commission against Wyndham Hotels. Both involved situations in which hackers illegally obtained the payment information of customers, with plaintiffs alleging serious failures on the par... - Wrongful Termination Lawyers, Wrongful Termination Legal Help - LawyersAndSettlements.com
Wrongful termination means an employer has fired or laid off an employee in violation of their legal rights. If wrongful termination law is violated, a wrongfully terminated employee may file a wrongful employment termination complaint with government agencies and/or file a private lawsuit, usually with the help of wrongful termination lawyers . Un... - Department of Defense Testing for Veterans’ Hearing Loss Falls on Deaf Ears at 3M
Mar-23-23 Santa Clara, CA A federal judge in the 3M defective earplugs MDL is not buying into 3M’s interpretation of medical testing records recently produced by the Department of Defense. 3M hired an economic consulting firm to analyze the DOD data to ensure the company a positive outcome, rather like insurance companies hiring their own medical exper... - Identity Theft Complaints on the Rise
Mar-4-16 Washington, DC: A report from the Federal Trade Commission indicates that complaints about identity theft increased 47 percent in 2015 over 2014. As more organizations become victims of data breaches , more consumers are exposed to a risk of identity theft. Consumers are fighting back, filing lawsuits against the companies and organizations they trust w... - Employee Stock Option FAQ
What is ERISA? ERISA is the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It sets minimum standards for pension plans in private industry. For example, if your employer offers a pension plan, ERISA establishes when you (as an employee) must be allowed to participate in the plan and how long you can be away from your employment before it affects you... - ERISA Lawsuits - Employee Stock Option Lawsuits - LawyersAndSettlements.com
Employee benefits are an important form of compensation offered by many employers. Some benefits plans are covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ( ERISA ). When employers violate ERISA laws , employees may be able to file a lawsuit to recover money lost from their employee savings plan , employee stock options plan or other be... - TJX Data, TJX agrees to pay Visa and Fifth Third Bank a $41 million settlement for a massive data breach
Boston, MA: (Nov-30-07) Visa and Fifth Third Bank brought charges against TJX, over a massive data breach. As part of a settlement reached TJX agreed to pay as much as $41 million in a settlement with Visa and the bank that processes TJX's credit card payments over the data breach. Sources claimed that the Framingham-based discount retailer stated that the... - Increasingly Savvy Hackers Snatched Billions of Dollars in Data
Feb-24-15 Seattle, WA Cyber thieves slipped through an unlocked door somewhere in the Anthem computer system and made off with the personal data of up to 80 million people. That number includes the health care provider giant’s past and current clients as well employees. According to Joseph Swedish, Anthem’s CEO, the cyber thieves accessed home addr... - In the Latest Data Breach, Ashley Madison Cheating Site Gets Screwed
Jul-23-15 Toronto, ON There is little doubt that as far as data breaches go, this week will go down as The Week Time Stood Still, and not just for the 37 million worldwide subscribers to the cheating website Ashley Madison, which was hacked through the back door of its parent company, Avid Life Media (ALM), sometime before Monday. Consumers of Ashley Madison&rsq... - Participants Sue Bronson Healthcare Plan over Inclusion of Fidelity Freedom Fund
Jun-14-21 Kalamazoo, MI On May 6, Susan Gleason and Candi Gabrielse filed a class action ERISA lawsuit against Bronson Healthcare Group Inc. in the Western District of Michigan. Gleason v. Bronson Healthcare is an example of increasingly distinctive subtype of breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits that focus on the relative cost and performance of two Fidelit... - DePuy Hip Replacement FAQ
What is the DePuy Orthopaedic Implant? The DePuy Orthopaedic hip replacement implants are hip replacement devices that were said to be more durable and longer-lasting than traditional hip implants because of their metal-on-metal design. They are manufactured by DePuy Orthopaedics, which is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. How is the DePuy... - DePuy Hip Replacement, ASR Hip Recall, DePuy Orthopedics, DePuy Lawsuit
DePuy Orthopaedics withdrew its ASR XL Acetabular metal-on-metal DePuy ASR hip replacement on August 24, 2010 following approximately 300 complaints from people undergoing hip replacement. The ASR hip replacement is a metal-on-metal device believed to have a design flaw that has resulted in many patients needing follow-up hip revision surgery to replac... - $3M AvMed Data Breach Class Action Settlement Finalized
Miami, FL: Final approval of a $3 million settlement has just been granted, ending a long-running data breach class action pending against health insurance provider AvMed. Filed in 2009, the lawsuit alleged that sensitive data from 1.2 million records had been breached from unencrypted laptops. Among the settlement terms is the stipulation that... - Sony Attempts to Toss Data Breach Lawsuits
Feb-12-15 Los Angeles, CA The massive data breach that brought Sony to a public relations waterloo in the weeks leading up to Christmas last year (and ironically, in its wake, creating an unexpected public awareness coup for its new movie, The Interview ) is already percolating through the courts with a bid to consolidate six federal class actions. A seventh pr... - St. Joseph's Health System Facing Patient Data Breach Class Action
Santa Rosa, CA: A privacy class action lawsuit has been filed against St. Joseph Health System, which operates Santa Rosa Memorial, Petaluma Valley and Queen of the Valley hospitals, for allowing private patient data to be searchable online for 31,800 patients across the system' California hospitals, including about 10,000 patients locally. Th... - FDA Warns of Risk of Oral Birth Defects in Children Born to Mothers Taking Topiramate
Washington, DC: Data from the North American Antiepileptic Drug (AED) Pregnancy Registry indicate an increased risk of oral clefts in infants exposed to Topamax (topiramate) during the first trimester of pregnancy. Infants exposed to topiramate as a single therapy experienced a 1.4 percent prevalence of oral clefts, compared with a prevalence of 0.38... - Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma to shape ERISA fiduciary lawsuits
Nov-7-19 Washington, DC On December 4, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in an ERISA lawsuit that may have lasting implications for the ability of plan participants to sue over mismanagement of retirement funds. As Christopher Sulyma argues in his Supreme Court brief , ERISA plan participants should not be assumed to know about (and perhaps have consented... - Out of Network Overcharges - Overcharge Legal Help - LawyersAndSettlements.com
The New York Attorney General's Health Care Report has determined that the Consumer Reimbursement System is 'Code Blue': they found its database to be "unreliable, inadequate and wrong". For the past year, legal experts have been conducting investigations into allegations that health insurance companies conspired to reduce insurers' reimbursements by cha... - Attorney Files Equifax Class Action Lawsuit
Sep-25-17 San Jose, CA: In the wake of an Equifax data breach that occurred in July but reported this September, attorneys at Oakland, California- based Scott Cole & Associates have filed a lawsuit seeking class action status against the credit reporting agency. This digital disaster could potentially affect up to 175 million Americans, and millions of peopl...