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• JPML Rejects Request to Consolidate Benzene Exposure Lawsuits Over Benzoyl Peroxide Acne Products

  August 13, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  The U.S. JPML has rejected a motion by plaintiffs calling for the creation of an acne cream benzene exposure lawsuit multidistrict litigation, leaving more than 30 claims to proceed as individual lawsuits without formal coordination.

• Airline Travelers File Lawsuit Against CrowdStrike After Outage Disrupts Thousands of Flights

  August 8, 2024

  Michael Adams

  Airline passengers have filed a class action lawsuit against the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike over software problems that led to a number of canceled and delayed flights last month.

• Fisher-Price Rock ’n Play Settlement Results in $19m Payout to Resolve Lawsuits Over Recalled Infant Sleepers

  August 7, 2024

  Michael Adams

  Fisher-Price has agreed to pay $19 million to consumers who bought recalled Rock 'n Play Sleepers, which featured a dangerous inclined sleeping design blamed for more than 100 infant deaths.

• Another Cocoa Puffs Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over High Levels of Lead in Popular Cereal Products

  August 6, 2024

  Michael Adams

  A class action lawsuit filed against General Mills claims that the company failed to warn consumers that its Cocoa Puffs products, targeted primarily at children, contain high levels of lead, increasing the risk of exposure side effects, such as brain damage and learning disabilities.

• General Mills Cocoa Puffs Cereal Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over Toxic Lead Levels

  July 24, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  General Mills faces a Cocoa Puffs class action lawsuit claiming the popular chocolate cereal contains high levels of lead, which was hidden from consumers for years.

• Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Cloud-Based Storage Company Blamed For Ticketmaster Leak

  July 16, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  A class action lawsuit over a recent Ticketmaster data breach alleges that the blame for the release of hundreds of millions of customers' data lies with a lack of adequate security by Snowflake, Inc., which stores data for Ticketmaster, AT&T, and other major corporations.

• JPML to Consider MDL Consolidation for Lawsuits Over Benzene in Acne Products

  June 18, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  At least 29 lawsuits have been filed over the presence of benzene in acne products, which are currently spread throughout 10 different federal court districts nationwide. However, they each raise similar allegations that consumers were not adequately warned about the presence of the toxic, cancer-causing chemical.

• Allergan Biocell Textured Breast Implant Lawsuits To Be Selected For Bellwether Trial Discovery in August 2024

  June 14, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  With more than 1,200 Allergan breast implant lawsuits pending throughout the federal court system, each involving allegations that the textured Biocell design caused women to develop anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), the parties have been given until the end of August to select a group of cases for early bellwether trials.

• Ticketmaster Data Breach Lawsuit Seeks Damages for More Than Half a Billion Users Whose Information Was Exposed

  June 13, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  A Ticketmaster data breach class action lawsuit seeks to represent 560 million customers whose personal data was stolen and sold on the Dark Web.

• AT&T Data Breach Lawsuit MDL Established in Texas Federal Court for Pretrial Proceedings

  June 6, 2024

  Irvin Jackson

  The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has consolidated all AT&T data breach lawsuits in the Northern District of Texas for coordinated pretrial proceedings.