A Glendale doctor has filed a class-action lawsuit against Banner Health after a cyberattack compromised the personal information of about 3.7 million patients, employees, cafeteria customers and others. Phoenix-based law …
The class-action lawsuit filed against Wendy’s over a data breach at more than 1,000 restaurants has attracted a crowd. More than 20 credit unions across the country, from Alaska to Florida, and a handful of credit union associations, including the Credit Union National Association, have joined as parties to the suit filed in Federal Court earlier this year by First Choice Federal Credit Union …
Four months after 21st Century Oncology said an “unauthorized third party” had accessed 2.2 million confidential records, lawyers working on lawsuits against the cancer-care giant say they have fielded likely thousands of inquiries from worried patients. As of this week, at least 13 separate federal class-action …
Netflix is one of the fastest growing successes that the entertainment industry has ever seen, and it’s showing no signs of slowing down in the future. As one would assume, the streaming giant didn’t get that popular through stupidity and lazy marketing, but one user seems to think he has found a way around the somewhat controversial recent price hike, and it involves slapping Netflix with a …
Veridian Credit Union recently filed a class action lawsuit against Wendy’s in response to a credit card breach that hit the fast food vendor’s point of sale (POS) systems starting in the fall of 2015, Law360 reports. The class action, filed on behalf of all U.S. financial institutions whose customers were affected by the breach, claims that Wendy’s failed to prevent the breach by updating its …
Wendy’s faces a class-action suit over a breach that occurred last year and resulted in hundreds of thousands of fraudulent credit card transactions. Pennsylvania-based First Choice Credit Union filed a class action lawsuit against Wendy’s over a data breach the retailer experienced last year. The suit alleged that …
While a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruling on a data breach insurance case was presented in a way that limits its impact, it’s still a significant win for the insured, a Los Angeles attorney says. “While the decision may not dramatically shift the playing field for data breach coverage, it still is a significant victory for policyholders because it …
A Class Action lawsuit has been filed following a massive privacy breach at Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville earlier this week that saw the names of 285 families involved with children’s services leaked on Facebook. The class action filed Thursday morning in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on behalf of a person identified only as M.M. names the agency, its…
Frequently, a class action complaint will set forth an elaborate theory of why the defendant’s actions were negligent or wrongful, but fall short when trying to identify how that conduct has harmed the class members. This kind of complaint invites a motion to dismiss on the grounds that the plaintiff has failed to demonstrate constitutional standing by identifying a “concrete, particularized,…
A federal appeals court has reinstated a putative class action lawsuit filed by two customers of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc., who say they were damaged by the restaurant chain’s 2014 data breach. Scottsdale, Arizona-based P.F.