KOIN (March 5, 2024) — Ten victims of the 2020 Labor Day Wildfires were awarded over $42 million in damages by a Portland jury on Tuesday amid a class action lawsuit against PacifiCorp. Tuesday’s verdict includes over $5 million in economic damages and over $23 million in non-economic damages, with both increasing by 25% for … Continued
LAW.COM (Feb 29, 2024) — A federal judge in California stayed lawsuits brought over 23andMe’s data breach, despite concerns raised by some plaintiffs lawyers about the possibility of continuing privacy violations. At a Thursday hearing, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, who is overseeing most of the 35 lawsuits against 23andMe in the Northern District of … Continued
The Guardian (February 17, 2024) — The company pointed at people who ‘failed to update their passwords’ as sensitive data was offered for sale on forums. Three years ago, a man in Florida named JL decided, on a whim, to send a tube of his spit to the genetic testing site 23andMe in exchange for … Continued
SFGATE (February 24, 2024) — Trial is scheduled for May in a case affecting millions of California drivers. The company says it did nothing wrong. If you drive a car in California, you may be in for a payday thanks to a lawsuit alleging privacy violations by a Texas company. The 2021 lawsuit, given class-action … Continued
Top Class Actions (February 14, 2024) — Wendy’s agreed to an $18.2 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims that it collected worker biometrics without following Illinois privacy regulations. The settlement benefits current and former Wendy’s employees who worked at a corporate-operated restaurant in Illinois and scanned their fingerprint in a finger scanner between … Continued
Law360 (June 16, 2023) — …Edelson PC, Stoll Berne Lokting & Shlachter PC and Keller Rohrback LLP make this week’s list after an Oregon jury on Monday found the utility PacifiCorp was grossly negligent in causing a group of Labor Day 2020 fires, awarding at least $71.9 million to owners of properties devastated by the … Continued
Seeking Alpha (January 23, 2024) – PacifiCorp, an electric utility owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B), was ordered by an Oregon jury to pay at least $62M to nine survivors of the Labor Day 2020 wildfires that swept through the state. The jury in Portland, where PacifiCorp is based, awarded the homeowners nearly … Continued
Law360 (January 23, 2024) – PacifiCorp must pay at least $62 million in compensatory damages to nine people who fled their homes in a Labor Day 2020 fire outbreak, a Portland, Oregon, jury found Tuesday, … Read More Here
Law.com (January 23, 2024) — An Oregon jury, in a rare class trial, awarded more than $62 million Tuesday to victims of the wildfires that ravaged the state in 2020. The trial, held at the Multnomah Circuit Court, is the second in a class action of residents and businesses with property the wildfires damaged. Jurors … Continued
Blooomberg (January 23, 2024) – A jury ordered a Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co. unit to pay nine homeowners at least $62 million for failing to prevent some Oregon wildfires in 2020, including $9 million for a man who jumped off a cliff into a river to escape the flames that destroyed his home. Adding to … Continued
