Liberty Mutual auto insurance carrier has settled a consumer protection lawsuit that alleged its television commercials advertising an accident-forgiveness program were misleading to Californians, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday. The $925,000 settlement, approved Wednesday, will be divided among district attorney’s offices in San Diego, Riverside and Los Angeles …
The city of Trinidad has agreed to pay $775,000 to settle two federal lawsuits alleging police arrested innocent people on drug charges because they relied on wrong and misleading information from an unreliable confidential informant, lawyers said. The ACLU of Colorado, which filed a lawsuit in January 2015 on behalf of two women, announced the terms of one settlement on Thursday. Danika …
Class actions play a vital role in our legal system. These lawsuits are often the only vehicle for injured plaintiffs to receive compensation when a defendant’s wrongs are widely disbursed and it would be impractical for a single individual to sue. Yet the process of settling these suits is subject to perverse incentives on the part of the lawyers representing the injured parties.
When The Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold first reported that Donald Trump has used money contributed to the foundation that bears his name to help settle two lawsuits, Trump and his surrogates repeatedly said the charge was untrue. Not Wednesday. At the third presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump essentially acknowledged he had used Trump Foundation money to settle a lawsuit …
The problems of Samsung Electronics are far from over as disgruntled customers plan to file class action lawsuits in South Korea and the US over exploding Galaxy Note 7s, reports said on Wednesday. Whi le three US customers from Nevada, Pennsylvania and California have already complained about the fire-prone devices, 38 owners of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in South Korea plan …
A federal judge Tuesday approved a $2.1 million class settlement between the publisher of the Yellow Pages and call center employees in Texas and Missouri who say they were stiffed for overtime pay. U.S. District Judge A. Joe Fish signed off on the settlement, awarding $840,000 from it in attorneys’ fees to counsel with Baron Budd. The settlement ends a 2014 lawsuit from call …
The ballad of the “Outerbridge Cowboy” continues, which now includes a notice of claim for a $50 million lawsuit and an ongoing criminal case. Prior to criminal charges against Tod “Doc” Mishler being continued Wednesday to a Jan. 9 court date, he sang cowboy songs outside the courthouse and detailed a notice of claim for a $50 million lawsuit he’s filed against the …
University of Virginia football players staged a gladiator-style fight between a pair of incoming freshmen, a dangerous hazing incident that resulted in a concussion and jeopardized the career of a promising young receiver, according to a federal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. For weeks this past the summer, upperclassmen had taunted, …
A federal judge has approved a $13.3 million settlement between a court-appointed receiver overseeing properties at the center of the largest alleged fraud case in the state’s history and a bank for one of the accused developers. “The settlement agreement was entered into in good faith, is at arm’s length, and is not collusive,” Judge Darrin P. Gayles wrote on Tuesday, after accepting the …
A settlement agreement for minors who had water contaminated with cryptosporidium in North Battleford, Sask., 15 years ago has been given preliminary approval. Thousands of people got sick in March and April 2001 when the parasite, which can cause diarrhea and vomiting, was found in the city’s drinking water. 15 years after Sask.