Those settlements include an agreement by the University of Southern California to pay $852 million to settle a class action by 702 victims who claim they were sexually abused by the university’s staff gynecologist. The previous record was $487 million in 2017. The top ten private plaintiff statutory settlements-cases involving biometric privacy, breach of contract or violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, skyrocketed to a new high of $1.67 billion. Altogether, the total of the top ten settlements in each of the categories was $3.62 billion in 2021, surpassing the previous high of $2.72 billion set in 2017 and dwarfing the $1.58 billion paid out in settlements in 2020.Įmployers saw increases in settlement values for wage and hour claims, ERISA filings and private statutory claims, but decreases in the amount spent to resolve employment discrimination lawsuits and government enforcement litigation. The law firm reports the aggregate amount of the top 10 private monetary settlements in each of five categories of workplace class action lawsuits employment discrimination, wage and hour, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, statutory private actions and governmental employment. The analysis includes all rulings in the federal and state court systems. Seyfarth’s 18th annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report says it examined a record number of 1,607 class action rulings in 2021.
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