Health insurance, financial services, and payment card companies failed to keep a California attorney’s identify theft lawsuit in federal court and must face the allegations back in state court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held May 31 (Gallo v. Unknown No. of Identity Thieves, 2017 BL 183260, N.D. Cal., No. 17-CV-01465-LHK, 5/31/17).
Judge Lucy H. Koh granted plaintiff David J. Gallo’s request for attorneys’ fees, saying that defendant Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Co. “lacked an objectively reasonable basis for seeking removal” to federal court in the first place.
The lawsuit ...
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