Claire Torchiana is an associate in Cohen Milstein’s Consumer Protection practice, where she litigates class actions on behalf of consumers who have been misled, deceived or harmed by large corporations.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Claire was an attorney focused on student loan debt at the Student Borrower Protection Center and Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, two of the country’s leading consumer protection advocacy organizations.
While at Stanford Law School, she helped run the Social Security Disability Project, participated in the Community Law Clinic, and was executive editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Claire is fluent In French.
- American Association for Justice
- California Bar Association
- Claire serves as the pro bono coordinator for Cohen Milstein’s New York office
- Brief of Community Development Financial Institutions and Credit Unions as Amici Curiae In Support of Petitioners, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Ass’n of America, Ltd. (U.S. Supreme Court)
- Equal Justice Works Fellow, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (2019 – 2021)
- California
- New York
- Stanford Law School, J.D., High Pro Bono Distinction, 2019
- Stanford University, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, With Distinction, 2013
- Fellow, Equal Justice Works (2019-2021)
Current Cases
In re MGM Resorts International Data Breach Litigation
In re MGM Resorts International Data Breach Litigation (D. Nev.): On February 1, 2021, Cohen Milstein’s Douglas J. McNamara was appointed Co-Lead Interim Class Counsel in this consolidated data breach class action against MGM Resorts for failing to implement reasonable data security practices, thereby allowing the personal information of between 10.6 million and 142 million MGM hotel guests and customers to be stolen on or about July 7, 2019.
In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation
In re Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation (N.D. Cal.): Cohen Milstein is Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in this putative class action, in which consumers claim that Meta’s proprietary Meta Pixel tool intercepts and transmits protected patient health information to Facebook for advertising purposes in violation of state and federal consumer protection laws, including invasion of privacy, CDAFA, and ECPA.
MOVEit Data Breach Litigation
In re: MoveIt Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (D. Mass.) Cohen Milstein is one of five court-appointed co-lead counsel overseeing this multidistrict litigation addressing the massive May 2023 data breach involving Progress Software Corp.’s file-sharing software, MOVEit Transfer, which impacted more than 2,500 organizations, including hospitals, banks, businesses, governments, pension funds, universities, among others, and more than 67 million individuals worldwide.
Past Cases
Ariza v. Luxottica Retail North America (LensCrafters)
Ariza v. Luxottica Retail North America (LensCrafters) (E.D.N.Y.): On September 27, 2024, the court granted final approval of a $39 million settlement in this certified class action. Purchasers of LensCrafters’ Accufit Digital Measurement System (Accufit) services alleged that LensCrafters used false, misleading advertising, and deceptive sales practices about Accufit being “five times more accurate” in measuring pupillary distance than traditional methods to induce customers to purchase LensCrafter’s higher-priced prescription lens products. Cohen Milstein was Lead Counsel.
August 1, 2023
LensCrafters Reaches $39M Deal To End AccuFit False Ad Suit
A proposed class of eyeglass wearers is asking a New York federal court to grant preliminary approval of a $39 million settlement to end a suit alleging LensCrafters misled consumers by advertising that its AccuFit Digital Measurement System was five times more accurate than competitors, having reached the agreement less than two weeks before trial. […]
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January 30, 2024
Meta Must Keep Battling Trimmed Health Tracking Privacy Suit
A California federal judge on Monday refused to throw out a trimmed version of a lawsuit claiming that Meta Platforms Inc. illegally collected patients’ health information using a Facebook data tracking tool, ruling that their latest complaint has addressed some of his prior concerns. U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick denied Meta’s motion to dismiss […]
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January 2, 2023
Privacy Litigation To Watch In 2023
The recent explosion of litigation accusing a wide range of companies of violating wiretap and video privacy laws through the technology they deploy on their websites will continue to proliferate in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes that have long plagued businesses and also show no signs of abating. Here, Law360 looks at the […]
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