Nov 1, 2016

UnitedHealth, OptumRX Targeted in Latest Class-Action Suit Alleging Prescription Scam

A UnitedHealth Group Inc. plan participant has filed suit against the insurance company for allegedly overcharging for prescription drugs after New Orleans television station Fox 8 revealed the findings of its investigations into prescription drug costs. In a segment entitled “Medical Wa$te,” Fox 8’s Lee Zurick investigated the “rising costs of prescription meds and questionable …


INVESTOR ALERT: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Reminds Shareholders of Tenet Healthcare Corp. Of a Class Action Lawsuit and a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of December 6, 2016

The following statement is being issued by Levi & Korsinsky, LLP: To: All persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired securities of Tenet Healthcare Corp. (“Tenet Healthcare”) (NYSE:THC) between February 28, 2012 and October 3, 2016 . You are hereby notified that a securities class action lawsuit has been commenced in the USDC for the Central District of …


Sugar Class Action Against Dole a ‘Policy-Oriented Brief,’ Law Prof Says

A new class action lawsuit against Dole Foods alleges two of its products are advertised as healthy but, in reality, they are high-sugar in content and not healthy at all. Salvador Amaya filed the suit Oct. 18 in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The complaint states in detail that the human body suffers as a consequence of ingesting too …



Prison Mental Health Lawsuit Earns Class-Action Status

Mentally ill inmates held in Alabama’s prisons may soon be receiving better care thanks to a federal court. Late last week, U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson awarded class action status to a lawsuit on behalf of prisoners allegedly receiving inadequate medical care from the Alabama Department of Corrections. That …


Lawsuit Claims Electricity Company’s Deception Cost Maine Consumers $35M

A new class-action lawsuit claims that an electric company deceived Maine consumers and shorted them of $35 million. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland Nov. 18 claims that Electricity Maine used fraud and deception to enroll 200,000 Maine households and small businesses with the promise of substantial cost savings. But attorney Benjamin Donahue says after a …


Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Changes Opinion on Lip Balm Slack-Fill Case, Putting Pressure on Similar Suits

Courts may now approach slack-fill suits with greater skepticism when a manufacturer accurately labels its net weight following an amended opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, according to a lip balm lawsuit. Sugar lip balm by Fresh, Inc. | Fresh, Inc. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ended a class-action lawsuit in March against Fresh Inc. over the lip balm …


BLU Products Faces Lawsuit Over Backdoor Found on Its Smartphones

It looks like the BLU Products saga isn’t over yet, as the US-based company is now facing a lawsuit over the backdoor that was discovered on its smartphones last week. For those of you who don’t remember, security contractors found a backdoor in the form of pre-installed software that monitors the location of the smartphone’s user, as well as whom they talk to and what they write in their text …


AMD Investors Allowed Class Action Over Llano

The lawsuit claims that AMD bosses, including Rory Read and Lisa Su, made “false and misleading statements to investors about the manufacturing and subsequent launch of, as well as the demand for, its Llano microprocessor” back in 2011 and 2012. Their case claims that AMD and its management violated the Securities Exchange Act. The court has ruled that anyone who bought AMD stock between April …


Wells Fargo Tries to Enforce Mandatory Arbitration in Phony Accounts Litigation

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo Bank (WFC), one of the largest banks in the US, is trying to push its customers to resolve the lawsuits that they are bringing over the opening of unauthorized accounts through private arbitration, instead of in a courtroom, according to legal documents filed Wednesday. The bank asked the US District Court in Utah to order dozens of customers to settle their …