BOSTON, March 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Social Security Law Group, LLP (SSLG) announced today that it has filed a Class Action lawsuit against the Social Security Administration (SSA) on behalf of its clients after SSA's repeated failures to disclose queried information as required by the Freedom of Information Act and the 1974 Privacy Act. The suit comes after months of effort by SSLG to timely secure certain claim and benefit information in the agency's possession, which is essential to the firm's representation of clients seeking Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income benefits. The SSA, a United States agency which administers a variety of Social Security insurance programs to seniors and disabled Americans, compiles an array of records pertaining to ...
A federal lawsuit claims St. Louis-based Express Scripts should have done more to prevent a widely publicized data breach last year. According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the company didn't use the most advanced information security technology it could and failed to take other steps to prevent the loss of its clients' confidential information. The lawsuit seeks class action status, claiming at least one million people were affected by the data breach.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In addition to potential legal and reputational liability, the outside directors of companies that become involved in corporate misconduct lawsuits risk losing opportunities to serve on other boards, according to a report released today by The Conference Board (http://www.conference- board.org). The report, Corporate Misconduct and the Market for Directorships, is the most recent installment of The Conference Board Director Notes series. It analyzes the changes in directorships held by outside board members of 113 public companies involved in a shareholder class-action lawsuit alleging the misrepresentation of information to investors. The study, analyzing the period 1996-2005, tracks directorship changes for three years after the initiation of lit...
Weis Markets Inc. could pay up to $2 million under a settlement of a federal class action lawsuit that claimed the supermarket left customers vulnerable to identity theft by unlawfully printing too much information on their credit- or debit-card receipts. The settlement includes more than $500,000 in attorney's fees and expenses, plus store certificates of up to $7.50 each to potentially thousands of Weis customers who between early December 2006 and early June 2007 received receipts containing more than the last five digits of their credit or debit cards. The settlement agreement was first announced about four months ago.
Police radio dispatchers in Columbus, OH, allege in a class-action lawsuit that the city illegally required them to disclose detailed medical information to supervisors to justify taking sick leave. The lawsuit highlights the difficulties that arise when an employer must staff a service that operates continuously, often under stressful circumstances, revealing the delicate balance between protecting medical privacy and enforcing a sick-leave policy. David Lefkow, a partner with Holland and Knight in Chicago, believes the collective bargaining agreement should guide the city's actions. He says supervisors may need guidance from human resource managers about how to best balance the needs of the employer with a person's desire for privacy.
TRENTON A group of consumer and minority advocates Wednesday accused Geico, the state's third-largest auto insurer, of unfairly quoting higher rates to motorists who lack college degrees and work blue-collar jobs. Geico denied the claim, saying its 600,000-plus policyholders have not been subject to discrimination. The company facing similar criticism in other states and a federal class-action lawsuit over the same issue said it uses the information in combination with 23 other factors to calculate annual premiums.
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