Today we announce the filing of a class action lawsuit against Dr. Oumair Aejaz, Henry Ford Health System, and Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, where we allege that Dr. Aejaz engaged in widespread sexual abuse and privacy violations against patients, including minors, over at least six years. Additionally, a second lawsuit has been filed against Detroit Medical Center.
Bailey Glasser announces that it has filed new complaints on behalf of 272 survivors of sexual abuse against the State of Illinois, alleging that the Illinois Department of Corrections and Department of Juvenile Justice failed to protect them from sexual abuse perpetrated by adult employees at State-operated Illinois Youth Centers and Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.
Our ERISA team scored a victory for retirement plan savers Friday, when U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny overwhelmingly rejected defendants’ motions to dismiss claims against fiduciaries to the Frontier Communications 401(k) Savings Plan.
Bailey Glasser’s ERISA litigation team won another victory before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which declined to reconsider a May 2024 ruling that an employee stock ownership plan trustee and selling shareholders in a stock sale to the plan can’t compel individual arbitration of a representative action on behalf of the plan accusing them of overcharging the plan, rejecting the trustee’s argument that the panel unfairly displayed “hostility to arbitration.”
Senior U.S. District Court Judge Joe Heaton approved a class action settlement yesterday that requires the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) to provide female student-athletes with equal treatment and opportunities, hire an outside expert to conduct a review of its intercollegiate athletic program, and develop and implement a Gender Equity Plan to bring the entire program into compliance with Title IX.
