A retirement community chain was granted final approval of its nearly $1 million settlement resolving claims it violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The $987,850 settlement fund to be created by defendant Lifespace Communities Inc. is fair, reasonable, and adequate, wrote
The West Des Moines, Iowa-based company was sued in state court in June before the case was removed to the Northern District of Illinois.
Plaintiff Sabrina Bedford, a former nursing assistant at the chain’s Lombard, Ill. ...