Firm News: Consumer: Page 7

Robin L. Greenwald, a former senior attorney within the U.S. Department of Justice and now head of the Weitz & Luxenberg Environmental, Toxic Tort & Consumer Protection litigation unit, has been appointed to an important leadership role in the multidistrict federal court litigation currently advancing against Volkswagen, Weitz & Luxenberg today announced. Greenwald was named…

Personal information belonging to 10.5 million customers of western New York health insurer Excellus BlueCross Blue Shield was hacked, and now W&L is taking up the call to help put those harmed by the data breach in their rightful positions. The hack was discovered in August, but occurred at the end of 2013. The hackers…

Weitz & Luxenberg today initiated an investigation into the harm suffered by patients whose private health and financial records were hacked during a recent data breach in Indiana, the law firm announced. Records of approximately 4 million patients found their way into criminal hands through the data breach, which occurred at a Fort Wayne electronic medical…

Weitz & Luxenberg and public-interest law firm Public Justice filed a class action lawsuit alleging that a major automobile manufacturer’s lending subsidiary charges unlawfully high interest rates for car loans in New York state. The lawsuit alleges that the lending practices of Chrysler Capital LLC victimize low-income consumers in particular. Named a co-defendant is B&Z…

Personal records and insurance information on 18,000 North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System patients were compromised by a data breach that occurred last year in Texas but went undisclosed for many months, and now Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. is considering filing negligence, economic injury and failure-to-warn claims against Dallas-based Global Care Delivery, the law firm…