Employers are likely to face more claims and bigger exposures in 2010 as sophisticated class actions and collective lawsuits increase along with aggressive government enforcement, one leading law firm predicted.
Those and other findings were part of the sixth annual “Workplace Class Action Litigation Report” by Seyfarth Shaw LLP, analyzing class-action and collective action court rulings of 2009 involving claims against employers in federal and state courts.
“Since we began publishing this annual report six years ago, both the number of cases filed and the financial exposure that they pose to companies has increased exponentially,” J. Stephen Poor, chair and managing partner of Seyfarth Shaw, said in a statement.
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