September 03, 2014
A California federal judge refused Wednesday to certify a class of IBM Corp. workers who serviced Kaiser Permanente's health information systems, saying that a survey designed by plaintiffs' counsel lacked "basic indicators of reliability" and that resolving the case would require too much individual inquiry.
August 22, 2014
A California federal judge on Friday tentatively denied International Business Machines Corp.'s bid to throw out allegations it illegally refused overtime pay to a putative class of employees servicing Kaiser Permanente's health information systems, but said a seriously flawed class survey may doom their bid for certification.