A lot of things have been said about the old American International Group in recent years. The Former House of Hank has been dragged through the mud and federal courthouses more than once since being essentially taken over by the Treasury Department but refusing to act like it, and the court of public opinion has been unkind to the firm even after the government sold back it’s AIG stock at a …
Attorneys for the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles and for plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the agency differ by more than $100 million in how much it should repay motorists for overcharged license and title fees. Attorney Irwin Levin of Indianapolis law firm Cohen & Malad LLP argued during a one-day bench trial Wednesday that the BMV should refund a total of $144 million in …
Angie’s List has agreed to pay $1.4 million in settlement from a class action lawsuit that was filed last year, and a look at where Indiana’s community college system ranks. The original complaint accuses Angie’s List of manipulating search results and reviews. The person who led the lawsuit said it wasn’t bad until she left a bad review for …
The whole Dieselgate scandal has done a number on Volkswagen financially. Despite my harsh words for the company in the past over the scandal, I’m starting to feel bad about for it. It’s been hit for billions here in the U.S., and there are more lawsuits coming down the pipe than I can shake a stick at.
Chief U.S. District Court Judge P.K. Holmes III on Wednesday reprimanded five attorneys, including the husband of a state Supreme Court justice, after finding bad faith and abuse of the court system in their manipulation of a controversial class-action case.
Thursday, a unit of HSBC Holdings said it will pay $1.575 billion in order to end a 14-year old shareholder class action lawsuit. The lawsuit stems from questionable mortgage lending undertaking more than a decade ago from the Household International consumer finance business that HSBC bought in 2003, according to an article by Jonathan Stempel for Reuters. In the second quarter, the company …
Fitbit is currently embroiled in a class-action lawsuit over the accuracy of its heart-rate tracking. As part of their case, the plaintiffs commissioned a scientific study of the accuracy of the Fitbit Charge HR and Surge. Wareable spoke to the scientist who was paid to do the testing, and unsurprisingly, he has bad things to say about Fitbit’s devices.
Because the American credit reporting system relies on both good and bad reports of creditworthiness, a consumer must have some kind of credit—not just the absence of bad credit. (In some countries, the lack of a credit report can establish good credit). “The American system, on other hand, relies on total surveillance,” writes Chris Jay Hoofnagle in his primer on privacy law and the Federal …
At least half a dozen Canadians have joined a class-action lawsuit, which has not yet been certified, that claims Old Spice deodorants can cause chemical burns. Rodney Colley of Virginia was the first to file legal action against the men’s line and its parent company, Procter & Gamble, after he claims he noticed “severe injuries on his armpits.” “[He] just went to use the product, as I recall, …
“With my bill, we can protect the health and safety of fashion models, but we can have a societal impact to make sure that women and girls have a healthy body image.” The bill would require the commission to maintain a database of all models’ health certificates. This bill wouldn’t force models to maintain a certain body mass index; rather it would require state regulators to develop …