Seyfarth Shaw's 2010 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report Featured in Business Insurance
"Top 2009 Wage-and-hour Settlements Rose 43.9%: Report"

Seyfarth Shaw's 2010 Workplace Class Action Litigation Report was featured in the Business Insurance article, "Top 2009 Wage-and-hour Settlements Rose 43.9%: Report,” published January 19, 2010. The article discussed Seyfarth's sixth annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, which analyzes class action and collective action court rulings of 2009 involving claims against employers in federal and state courts. According to the article, the Report found that “The lesson to draw from 2009 is that the private plaintiffs bar and government enforcement attorneys are apt to be equally, if not more, aggressive in 2010 in bringing class action and collective action litigation against employers.” The article also noted that in fiscal 2009 the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed 281 new lawsuits, resolved 319 pending cases and secured $294.1 million in settlements for allegedly injured victims of job bias. The monetary value of the top 10 settlements paid or entered into in 2009 totaled $107.1 million, a 26% increase.