Class-Actions

WWE Brain Injury Class Action Lawsuit Update

WWE scored a partial victory in the brain injury lawsuit brought by Evan Singleton (f.k.a. Adam Mercer), Vito LoGrasso, and others, as the United States District Court of the District of Connecticut granted, in part, the professional wrestling promotion’s Motion for Reconsideration. The move enables WWE to revive its countersuit against four other professional wrestlers who threatened to bring …


Cannabis Pesticides: Oregon’s Class Action Lawsuit

Back at the beginning of 2016, while Oregon’s recreational cannabis industry really got rolling, Bradley Lillie of Eugene, Oregon, filed a class-action lawsuit against Guardian Mite Spray makers All In Enterprises. The reason he filed this lawsuit was because the “all natural” mite spray to prevent a common cannabis plant problem was not all natural. In February, …


Updategate: Trio Files Class-Action Suit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10

Three US citizens have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over Updategate. Florida Windows users Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abdulreda and Robert Stahl filed the suit in a federal court, claiming that Microsoft “coerced” them into upgrading to Windows 10 and that the “unintentional” upgrades borked their machines. There have been rumblings all year from customers talking of class-action …


California Federal Court Dismisses Claims in Class Action to the Extent Plaintiff’s Claims Are Based on the Theory That Rates Were Not Filed Pursuant to the California Insurance Code

In this class action lawsuit in a California federal court, Shasta Linen Company and all those similarly situated brought an action against Applied Underwriters, Inc. and its affiliate entities. Shasta Linen alleges that the “EquityComp” workers’ compensation insurance program marketed and sold by Applied Underwriters violated the California Insurance Code and Regulatory provisions by …



Lebanon County Joins Class Action Suit

Lebanon County will file to be a lead plaintiff in a class action suit against a Brazilian steel manufacturer accused of attempting to defraud its government of more than $400 million in taxes.


Class Action Says Anthem Refuses to Cover Brand-Name Medication

A class action lawsuit charges that Anthem Blue Cross refuses to cover name-brand medication, even when there is no equivalent generic or the generic is ineffective. In the suit, K.F. Petty says that in 2007, her doctor prescribed a medication described in the suit as “Drug X” to protect her privacy.


Class-Action Suit Brought Against Theranos

Palo Alto-based Theranos is in the midst of a class-action lawsuit after the company revealed in May the results of thousands of its blood tests had to be thrown out because of unreliable results. Theranos, according to its website, gets its name from a combination of the words therapy and diagnosis. The company collects blood using a finger-stick device it called Edison, which …


Drivers Deliver Class Action Saying GrubHub Needs to Treat Them as Employees, Not Contractors

A group of app-dispatched food delivery drivers have served Chicago-based GrubHub with a class action, saying the company has wrongly classified them as contractors, when they should qualify as employees under the law. Six people who have worked for GrubHub took aim June 28 in Chicago federal court against the web-based food delivery coordinator, arguing their classification as independent …


Google Dodges Parents’ Web Privacy Appeal in Class Action Lawsuit

Google and Viacom on Monday defeated an appeal in a nationwide class action lawsuit by parents who claimed the companies illegally tracked the online activity of children under the age of 13 who watched videos and played video games on Nickelodeon’s website. By a 3-0 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., and Viacom Inc. …