Steve Larson has been representing investors, consumers and employees in class actions in Oregon for over 20 years. He is a shareholder at the law firm of Stoll Berne in Portland, Oregon.
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This blog is intended to provide information to the general public and to practitioners about developments that may impact Oregon class actions.
Trial began Monday, April 24, 2023, in the Oregon Labor Day fires class action against PacifiCorp. Plaintiffs allege that PacifiCorp, Oregon’s second largest utility, did not, and should have, shut off power during the extremely hot, dry and major windstorm event over Labor Day weekend in 2020.
Rail company Norfolk Southern is facing a potential class action lawsuit for the recent Ohio train derailment. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio by three people that resided near the derailment.
In a recent proposed class action lawsuit against Chick-fil-A, plaintiffs claim that the company used Facebook’s parent company, Meta, to retarget them for watching video advertisements via Meta’s pixel tracker.
A recently filed lawsuit alleges that a revenue management platform used by Las Vegas strip hotels, Rainmaker, used a system to keep rooms priced high so the competition would not undercut pricing.
Southwest Airlines is facing two potential class action lawsuits in California due to problems faced by customers in December 2022 as a result of cancelled flights.
Several laid-off Twitter employees were informed by a recent ruling in their proposed class action lawsuit that they must pursue their claims via individual arbitration instead.
A U.S. District Court Judge in Oregon recently refused to certify a proposed sex discrimination class action t filed by a group of current and former female employees against Nike. The ruling cited insufficient evidence that a potential class of 5,200 female employees were harmed due to a company policy or practice of basing lower pay for female employees due to their former job’s pay.
A class action was recently certified on behalf of more than two million California drivers. The lawsuit alleges that Geico Corp. overcharged their insureds during the initial months of the COVID-19 lockdowns because the lockdowns forced drivers to change their driving behavior which led to lack of use and a lack of risk by Geico.
Two employees of Fred Meyer have filed a $5 million wage class action lawsuit against the grocery chain for violating Oregon’s wage laws
Virgin Galactic Holdings and Richard Branson are facing a proposed class action lawsuit. The Plaintiffs in the lawsuit are shareholders who claim that both Virgin and Branson made statements about the flight program that led them to overpay for company shares.
A transgender teenager’s gender-affirming care is at the heart of a potential class action lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois.
FTX is facing a class-action lawsuit by investors in this cryptocurrency exchange. FTX is seeking a bankruptcy and a liquidation of its assets. The lawsuit claims that FTX, along with other former CEO Sam Bankman-Friend and several celebrities, were responsible for the damage for promoting the exchange before its market collapse earlier this month.
A class of consumers won a $102.6 million trial against General Motors LLC in California. The lawsuit centered around the allegations that General Motors knew about an engine issue which caused stalling and premature breakdowns in their SUVs and trucks.
A preliminary settlement was reached recently by Smithfield Foods Inc. in the amount of $75 million in a pork price-fixing lawsuit. Consumers filed the lawsuit claiming that this meat producer along with others limited supply to inflate the price of pork in the U.S. market. Smithfield denies any wrongdoing.
AARP recently filed a class action lawsuit against an Illinois nursing home provider, Alden and six of its facilities. AARP’s lawsuit claims that Alden failed to adequately staff their facilities with a goal to increase profits.
Healthcare staffing agencies have been in the news recently for contracting with their travelling nurses at one pay rate but delivering on a much lower one. Traveling nurses often sign at-will employment contracts.
A proposed class action lawsuit spearheaded by the nonprofit Farm Forward filed in California alleges that Whole Foods used deceptive marketing to claim their organic beefs are free from antibiotics.
Peloton Interactive Inc. is facing a proposed class action lawsuit in New York over its library of on-demand programs. According to the lawsuit, Peloton advertised to its potential purchasers continued growth of its program options but in March 2019, Peloton removed an estimated 12,000 on-demand programs.
Equifax is facing a class-action lawsuit due to an alleged technical issue. The issue is said to stem from their reporting system’s malfunction during a system update that allegedly affected millions of credit scores.
In a class action filed in Alabama, class plaintiffs alleged that State Farm Fire and Casualty, between 2011 and 2017, used a depreciated cost of labor and other non-material costs for repairs to properties owned by their insureds. The lawsuit alleges that said depreciation was against their policies.
