At a July 27 hearing in Pensacola, FL, U.S. District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers expressed concerns regarding 3M’s decision to resolve the more than 230,000 earplug litigation cases pending against it by putting its Aearo Technologies division into bankruptcy, in...
Potential Consolidation of 27 Exatech Implant Device Liner Litigation Cases into MDL Proceeding
Exactech, a manufacturer of knee, ankle and hip implant devices, has issued a series of product recalls that have resulted in a number of lawsuits being filed. In June 2021, the company wrote to healthcare professionals, notifying them of concerns it had with the...
Health Care Data Breach Class Action Lawsuits Filed in Federal Court
Data breach class action lawsuits involving two health care organizations have sparked new filings in federal court. There are currently 11 cases filed in federal courts in California and Washington against MCG Health, LLC (MCG). A separate hacking incident against...
Litigation Update: Logan Health Medical Center Data Breach Causes Filing of Class Action
On February 22, 2022, patients of Logan Health Medical Center (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare) were notified that some of their personal information may have been subject to a hack on November 18, 2021. The medical center became aware of the breach on November...
Litigation Update: FTC Announces Settlement Finalization on 2017 Equifax Data Breach Claims
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that in January 2022 it had finalized a settlement in the 2017 data breach involving the credit reporting company, Equifax. The data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 147 million people was,...
Litigation Update: T-Mobile Attempts to Use Arbitration Clauses to Limit Data Breach MDL Class
In an effort to limit the number of potential class members in the T-Mobile data breach multi-district litigation, lawyers for T-Mobile USA, Inc. have taken the position that “a significant portion of this class is bound by arbitration agreements that would preclude...
Litigation Update: T-Mobile Files Stay Motion in Georgia Data Hack Lawsuit
On September 21, wireless carrier T-Mobile filed a motion asking a Georgia federal judge to stay the proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia pending a ruling by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) on an August 23...
Litigation Update: Software Developer Clearview AI Asks Illinois Judge to Dismiss MDL Claims
At a hearing held May 25 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the facial recognition developer Clearview AI asked Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman to dismiss the consolidated complaint, arguing that its collection and dissemination of data is...