Class

Judge Gives Early OK on Dana Deal

A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a $64-million settlement to be paid to investors by two former Dana Holding Corp. top executives who were the target of a securities-fraud class action lawsuit. In an order issued this week, Judge James Carr of the U.S. District Court in Toledo tentatively approved the settlement and scheduled a hearing for Nov. 18. In the meantime, the judge …


HSBC Pays $1.6 Billion to End 14-Year Mortgage-Lending Lawsuit

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 …


Glancy Prongay & Murray Announces the Filing of a Securities Class Action Against Halyard Health, Inc. And Kimberly-Clark Corporation on Behalf of Investors and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm

Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP (“GPM”) announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Halyard Health, Inc. (“Halyard” or the “Company) (HYH) and Kimberly-Clark Corporation (“Kimberly-Clark” or the “Company”) (KMB) on behalf of investors who (1) purchased or otherwise acquired Kimberly-Clark securities on or after February 25, 2013 and subsequently …


Drivers Deliver Class Action Saying GrubHub Needs to Treat Them as Employees, Not Contractors

A group of app-dispatched food delivery drivers have served Chicago-based GrubHub with a class action, saying the company has wrongly classified them as contractors, when they should qualify as employees under the law. Six people who have worked for GrubHub took aim June 28 in Chicago federal court against the web-based food delivery coordinator, arguing their classification as independent …


IMPORTANT LIPOCINE, INC. SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP Reminds Investors That a Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Commenced on Behalf of Shareholders of Lipocine, Inc.

Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of purchasers of Lipocine, Inc. (“Lipocine” or the “Company”) (LPCN) between June 30, 2015 and June 28, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Shareholders who have purchased …




How a File-Sharing Lawsuit Against Rogers Threatens Your Internet Privacy: Geist

Earlier this year, Voltage Pictures, which previously engaged in a lengthy court battle to require Canadian ISPs to disclose the names of alleged file sharers, adopted a new legal strategy. While the company obtained an order to disclose names in the earlier case, it came with conditions and costs. Its latest approach involves filing a reverse class action lawsuit against an unknown number of …


Shareholder Lawsuit Filed Against CPI Card Group, Inc.

The law firm of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP announces that a shareholder class action lawsuit has been filed against CPI Card Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PMTS) (“CPI Card” or the “Company”) on behalf of purchasers of the Company’s securities made pursuant or traceable to CPI Card’s initial public offering (“IPO”) on or around October 8, 2015. CPI …


Caterpillar Reaches Class-Action Settlement Over Alleged Engine Defects, ACERT Owners to Get Payments

Anyone who had six or more CRS-related repairs done to a Caterpillar ACERT engine is eligible for $10,000. A settlement has been reached in the class-action lawsuit that alleged Caterpillar’s 2007-2010 year model ACERT C13 and C15 engines were defective, driving up costs for owners and driving down resale value. Cat’s ACERT engines were introduced as the company’s alternative to exhaust-gas …