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The Hon. Elizabeth A. Kovachevich denied Defendant Health Insurance Innovations’ motion to dismiss, in part. Judge Kovachevich found Lead Plaintiff’s allegations that the company’s 2017 10-Q Second Quarter Report was misleading because it (i) conveyed the false impression that HII would not need a third party administrator (“TPA”) license to conduct its third-party insurance business in its home state of Florida and, (ii) misrepresented the reasons that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation denied its application for a TPA license well plead.

Defendants filed a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court captioned Hagan et al. v. Khoja, Case No. 18-1010.  The Petition for Certiorari appealed, in part, KSF’s victory in the Ninth Circuit in Khoja v. Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc., 899 F.3d 988 (9th Cir. 2018).  KSF successfully defended the Ninth Circuit’s ruling before the United States Supreme Court when it denied Defendants’ Petition for a Writ of Certiorari on May 20, 2019.

Judge Barbara Lynn entered final judgment in Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., et al. KSF served as Co-Class Counsel in the federal securities class action against oilfield services company and a high-level officer, in which Class Counsel obtained a unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, ultimately resulted in a cash settlement of $100 million for investors.

The Hon. Jon P. McCalla certified a class of shareholders of AAC Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AAC) in a lawsuit arising from Defendants’ misleading statements regarding a criminal investigation into the death of a patient. Judge McCalla also appointed KSF and one other law firm as Class Counsel. The case is Kasper v. AAC Holdings, Inc., No. 15-cv-00923, pending in the Middle District of Tennessee.

The Hon. Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., the United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, ordered KSF’s appointment as co-lead counsel for the class in Ziolkowski v. Netflix, Inc. et al., Case No. 4:17-cv-01070-HSG (N.D. Cal.).