A class action lawsuit has been filed against Mylan alleging the company violated consumer protection laws and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act by upping the price of the epinephrine auto-injector. Amber Rainey, Christina Kollmeyer and Lisa Vogel filed the lawsuit April 3 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The plaintiffs claim …
A U.S. judge will hear arguments on Thursday over whether to grant final approval to a $25 million settlement of fraud lawsuits against President Donald Trump over his Trump University real estate investment seminars, with at least one former student objecting to the deal. Sherri Simpson of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who paid $19,000 to learn Trump’s investing …
You could be due a partial refund from “Harbor Freight” if you were a customer between April 8th, 2011 and December 15th, 2016. The company has settled a class-action lawsuit which alleged the company advertised merchandise as “on sale” or “comp at” prices were based on prices that didn’t exist within 28 of the past 90 days. The refund available is between 20-30% of the “You Saved” value on …
A federal judge has dismissed two of the six counterclaims that pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts raised in health insurer’s Anthem’s $15 billion lawsuit claiming it charged too much for drugs. In a decision made public on Friday, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos in Manhattan dismissed Express Scripts’ claim that Anthem breached an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, …
Providence Health Plan has agreed to pay $10,000 each to two families whose boys were denied coverage for autism therapy and about $638,000 in attorney fees under a settlement reached in federal court. Providence Health Plan also agreed to never use the Developmental Disability Exclusion to deny coverage of behavioral therapy for autistic children under the settlement. U.S. District Judge …
In a consumer fraud lawsuit filed Tuesday in Polk County District Court, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller alleged that the makers of “drinkable sunscreen” failed to prove their product provides the advertised protection against cancer-causing ultraviolet (UV) rays. The suit against Osmosis LLC and Harmonized Water LLC, and owner Benjamin Taylor Johnson, MD, of Evergreen, Colorado, alleges the …
The D.C. law firm, Whitfield Bryson & Mason LLP, today announced that a settlement has been reached with Titeflex Corp. and Ward Manufacturing, LLC (“Defendants”) about allegedly defective Gastite® and Wardflex® corrugated stainless steel gas tubing (“CSST”) used to supply natural gas and propane to gas appliances. The class action lawsuit was …
Pitman’s order distinguished between two types of Title IX claims: In the first, more traditional claim, a woman who was sexually assaulted accuses Baylor of failing to respond to her particular situation after she reported it to the school. In those claims, the judge ruled, the two-year statute of limitation should begin as scheduled â from the time an assault was reported. Four of the 10 …
It might make you think twice about the jewelry you’re wearing. Some 250 men and women are accusing some of the country’s most popular jewelry stores of widespread sexual misconduct. As part of a larger gender discrimination class-action case against parent company Signet Jewelers (shown below), former female employees of Kay, Zale’s, Jared’s and more claim that they were …
Vizio may have resolved a government investigation into data collected by internet-connected “smart” televisions, but the manufacturing giant must still contend with a proposed consumer class action on the topic after a California federal judge late last week largely denied a motion to dismiss. The lawsuit makes a variety of federal and state claims over the way Vizio’s Smart TVs use content …