Coronavirus Class Actions—Part Two—A Few Weeks Later
“…numerous COVID-19 related class actions have been filed throughout the country in various different spaces—consumer, mass tort, securities, labor & employment, and banking and privacy. These newly filed complaints (and some corresponding opinions) provide us valuable insight into how class action plaintiffs will proceed with outbreak-related claims, and allows us the opportunity to further analyze the viability of putative class action complaints. This post will address the first COVID-19 certification decision and include an analysis of the two most active areas of COVID-19 class actions: mass torts and consumer protection,” write Bethany Gayle Lukitsch, Kamran B. Ahmadian and Drew Gann in McGuireWoods’ In The News.
“While the majority of these cases will take weeks or months (particularly given the court shutdowns that have occurred throughout the country) to progress to the class certification stage, surprisingly we have already seen the first COVID-19 class certified. ”
