Current Investigations
Girard Sharp is investigating reports of a data breach that is reported to have potentially exposed personal, financial, and medical information of NorthBay Healthcare’s patients and employees. Nearly 570,000 people may have been affected by the data breach involving Northbay Healthcare.
Girard Sharp is investigating reports of a PowerSchool data breach that may have exposed the personal information of over 60 million individuals, including children. The exposed information could potentially include Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, emails, photo identification, tax information numbers, health histories, and other medical information.
Girard Sharp attorneys are investigating reports on behalf of consumers that the insurance company, Allstate, has been collecting and selling consumer data without prior consent.
Results
Girard Sharp served as co-lead counsel in a certified securities class action on behalf of investors of Maxar Technologies, Ltd. (NYSE: MAXR) regarding alleged violations of federal securities laws for material misstatements and omissions associated with the performance and economic outlook of one of its core business units. The court granted preliminary approval of a $36.5 million settlement in June 2023.
Girard Sharp served as co-lead counsel in the certified product defect class action against Apple on behalf of purchasers of MacBook laptops equipped with Apple’s allegedly defective butterfly keyboard. The court granted final approval of a $50 million settlement in May 2023.
Girard Sharp represents IVF patients of Pacific Fertility Center whose eggs and embryos were damaged or destroyed in a cryopreservation tank failure. On June 11, 2021, after a three-week trial, a jury found the tank manufacturer, Chart Industries Inc., liable for a defect in the tank and for its negligent failure to recall a part that malfunctioned, a “controller” meant to monitor liquid nitrogen levels. The jury awarded more than $14 million in damages to three women who lost eggs and a married couple who lost embryos in the catastrophic March 2018 tank failure. The three women were each awarded between $2 million and $3 million, and the couple was awarded $7.2 million. Girard Sharp represents over 80 families who lost reproductive material in the tank failure.
Pending Cases
Girard Sharp serves as interim co-lead counsel in the Google Digital Advertising Antitrust Litigation, a multidistrict litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Girard Sharp filed the first digital advertising monopoly class action against Google, several months before the U.S. Department of Justice and a group of state attorneys general sued Google for monopolization.
Co-lead counsel in class action alleging defective electronic system resulting in premature battery failures in Subaru vehicles.
Representing purchasers of GWG Holdings, Inc. in a class action lawsuit alleging that the company may have made false and misleading statements to investors in connection with the issuance and sale of L Bonds.
