Willis Group Holdings Gender Discrimination Litigation
Hnot et al. v. Willis Group et al. (S.D.N.Y.): Cohen Milstein represented a certified class of 180 current and former female officers in the Northeast Region of Willis Group Holdings Ltd., a global insurance and reinsurance brokerage firm, in this high-profile pay and promotion gender discrimination class action. On November 19, 2007, the court granted final approval to an $8.5 million settlement, roughly $50,000 for each class member, an amount covering 100% of the lost wages plaintiffs claimed. The settlement was reached weeks before a jury trial was scheduled to start.
Amedisys FLSA Litigation
Cook et al v. Amedisys, Inc. (D. Conn.): Cohen Milstein represented approximately 2,000 home health care workers in a certified FLSA collective action and state wage and hour class action against Amedisys, Inc., a national home health care provider. Home healthcare workers alleged that Amedisys used a hybrid per-visit compensation model that violated FLSA and state wage and hour law requirements for overtime-exempt employees. On January 21, 2016, the court granted final approval to an $8 million settlement, approximately $2,400 per class member.
The Trade Desk, Inc. Securities Litigation
In re The Trade Desk, Inc. Securities Litigation (C.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein, as lead counsel, represents investors in a securities class action against The Trade Desk and certain executive officers for allegedly making repeated misstatements and omissions about the success of the company’s new ad-buying platform called Kokai, as well as insider trading based on those misstatements. As the truth was fully revealed, investors lost a staggering $42 billion in shareholder value.
BNBuilders ESOP Litigation
Schlueter v. BNBuilders, Inc., et al. (W.D. Wash.): Cohen Milstein represents an employee participant of the BNBuilders ESOP in a class action, alleging that Brad Bastian and the former owners of BNBuilders created the ESOP for the express purposes of selling 100% of their shares of the company for $206,508,990 to provide themselves liquidity while retaining ownership and control of the company in violation of ERISA.
ARCO/Murray ESOP Investigation
Our firm is investigating whether ARCO/Murray ESOP participants have suffered financial harm as a result of the ESOPs purchasing ARCO/Murray companies at inflated prices. These purchases may have caused multi-million-dollar losses. ESOP participants may have legal claims entitling them to compensation. If you worked for ARCO or an ARCO subsidiary for at least one year […]
Nielsen v. TVision Antitrust Counterclaim Litigation
Nielsen v. TVision (D. Del.): Cohen Milstein represents TVision Insights Inc., a pioneering TV data and analytics company, in an antitrust counterclaim against Nielsen for, among other things, allegedly filing baseless patent infringement lawsuits against potential competitors to assert its dominance in the TV audience measurement services in the United States.
MTM Criminal Background Check Discrimination Litigation
Blakney v. MTM, et al. (D.D.C.): After three years of safely and reliably transporting vulnerable patients, our client was abruptly fired based on a decades-old arrest that had never before been an issue. This lawsuit challenges MTM’s background check policy, which allegedly discriminates against workers of color – by imposing automatic job bans without regard to time passed, job relevance, or demonstrated performance – in violation of civil rights law.
In re FMC Corporation Securities Litigation
In re FMC Corporation Securities Litigation (E.D. Pa.): Cohen Milstein, as co-lead counsel, represents investors in a securities fraud class action against FMC, a global manufacturer of pesticides and other crop protection products. Investors claim that after staggering COVID-19 pandemic, sales losses, FMC initiated a strategic initiative called Project Focus to normalize distributor investor levels. In reality, this was nothing more than an illegal channel stuffing initiative across the globe that executives touted “rebalancing” and “normalizing” their channel inventories at a faster pace than expected.
Insurance AMS Antitrust Litigation
Ardent Labs, Inc., d/b/a Comulate v. Applied Systems, Inc. (N.D. Ill.): Cohen Milstein represents Ardent Labs Inc., d/b/a Comulate, in an antitrust lawsuit against Applied Systems Inc., a dominant provider of enterprise-level insurance agency management systems. Comulate alleges that Applied has unlawfully wielded its monopoly power to stifle competition in the adjacent market for enterprise-level automated insurance agency accounting software, in which Comulate has operated with great success until recently due to Applied’s misconduct. This case marks the latest escalation in a multi-pronged dispute between the two companies.