Autumn’s pet parent believes jerky treats killed the dog and she’s not happy with the class action settlement. “She was not an animal to anybody. I just felt cheated from what they’ve done. ” …
On April 27, 2016, ExamWorks announced it had signed a definitive merger agreement with Leonard Green. Under the terms of the agreement, Leonard Green will acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of ExamWorks for $35.05 per share in an all cash transaction. The investigation concerns whether the ExamWorks board failed to satisfy their duties to the Company shareholders, including …
An attorney suing the Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency, alleging it has wrongly accused tens of thousands of residents of fraud and unlawfully confiscated tens of millions of dollars in benefits and penalties, says …
To tip, or not to tip? That is the question for Uber riders this week following the $100-million US settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against the company by its drivers — and many are wary of what the answer may be. The popular (and polarizing) ride-hailing service reached an agreement with groups in two states on Thursday to maintain the status of its drivers as independent …
Accounting-related securities class action filings hit a four-year high in 2015, a new Cornerstone Research report found. According to the April 19 report, 71 securities class actions involving accounting allegations were filed during the year, compared to the 69 cases seen in 2014 and the 10-year average of 67 filings. The report said the increase represented “a return to the more …
Mark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times and former director-general of the BBC, is facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit alleging that he introduced a culture of “deplorable discrimination” based on age, race and gender at the newspaper. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two black female employees in their sixties in New York on Thursday, claims that under Thompson’s …
Imagine suddenly being bombarded by unsolicited text messages from the social network Facebook. Now imagine this happening despite the fact that you’re not a member of said network and have no interest in becoming one. That’s the predicament Christine Holt of Washington, D.C., says she found herself in last month when she obtained a new cell phone number from MetroPCS.
Lawsuit alleges Dometic sold defective refrigerators A class-action lawsuit against Dometic alleging that the company sold faulty refrigerators included this picture and said the damage to this RV was due to a flawed unit. Hagens Berman, a group that has leveraged successful class-action litigation against giants such as Philip Morris and is taking on Volkswagen for its role in the emissions …
A recent, seemingly innocuous decision out of the Western District of New York sheds new light on a compelling constitutional argument against high-dollar class action lawsuits brought under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). In Hannabury v. Hilton Grand Vacation Co., LLC, No. 14-cv-6126, 2016 WL 1181789 (W.D.N.Y.
LENOVO-OWNED Motorola has been slapped with a $5m class action lawsuit over allegations of shoddy customer service and not honouring warranty policies. News of the lawsuit comes via Trusted Reviews, which learned this week that the complaint was filed against Motorola on 21 April in Illinois, accusing the company of “unfair, unscrupulous, immoral and oppressive” business practices. The …