Perspective
Mar. 7, 2013
Time to expand the food industry's menu of defense strategies
The food industry is the new target of choice for class action plaintiffs. But the torrent of class actions in 2012 was merely the continuation of a storm that has been gathering for at least five years. By Benjamin P. Broderick
It was only last fall that the New York Times identified the food industry as the new target of choice for class action plaintiffs ("Lawyers of Big Tobacco Target Food Makers," Aug. 18, 2012). But the torrent of new food industry class actions ("FICAs") in 2012 was merely the continuation of a storm that has been gathering for at least five years. From 2008 through 2010, the number of FICA filings roughly doubled each ...
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