A former employee of Royal Caribbean just scored class-action certification in Miami on behalf of thousands of cruise line workers whose pension funds took a hit due to alleged mismanagement of the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Retirement Savings Plan. In Johnson v. Russell Inv. Trust. Co., the plaintiff, Ann Johnson, alleges Russell Investments Trust…

General Motors LLC and OnStar LLC will be the first of what appears to become a series of lawsuits brought by the state of Texas against companies trafficking in data about consumers’ driving habits. The Consumer Protection Division of the Office of Attorney General on Tuesday filed a deceptive trade practices…

Pa. Appeals Court Rejects ‘Statutory Employer’ Challenge to $15.5M Worker Injury Verdict | The Legal Intelligencer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/thelegalintelligencer/2024/08/14/pa-appeals-court-rejects-statutory-employer-challenge-to-15-5m-worker-injury-verdict/ Credit: maienter9/Adobe Stock NEWS Mongeluzzi said the panel’s holding on the Statutory Employer Doctrine’s application was fact-specific, but the doctrine itself is under scrutiny beyond this particular case. August 14,…

Enzo BioChem has agreed to a $4.5 million settlement with New Jersey, New York and Connecticut over its alleged deficient data and security safeguards, which led to a 2023 ransomware attack that compromised the personal health data of 2.4 million patients, including about 331,600 New Jersey residents. An investigation into…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s three-year regulatory effort to sharply reduce the use of “forever chemicals” will forge ahead despite the agency’s uphill legal battle, environment law professors and attorneys said this week.   In October 2021, EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced a “Strategic Roadmap” against per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances used…

Litigation, health care, telecom and antitrust practices are among the latest targets for hiring for law firms, including K&L Gates, DLA Piper, Winston & Strawn and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, in their Washington, D.C., offices this week. BCLP hired David Schwartz as a partner in its antitrust and competition practice in…