Plaintiffs attorneys who target food and beverage companies with class action lawsuits are showing no signs of slowing down, according to analysis from international law firm Perkins Coie that also shows California’s lawyers are the most active.
Two members of the firm hosted a mid-year summary on food and beverage class actions on Aug. 2, presenting figures that show 2017 is on pace for a similar amount of filings as the previous two years. With 83 cases filed in the first seven months of the year, Perkins Coie projects 143 for the year.
That’s nearly identical to 2016 (145 lawsuits) and a little behind 2015 (158). In 2008, there were only 19.
“There’s been a return to California as the forum of preference for food and beverage class action lawsuits,” Perkins Coie’s Charles Sipos said during a one-hour webinar.
In fact, California courts have seen 47 food industry class actions in 2017, compared to only 12 by second-place New York.
It’s a larger gap than last year, when 65 were filed in California and 35 in New York.
Legal Newsline has reported on several of these cases, which boil down to a few separate types of claims.
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