Retail giant Radio Rentals has been hit with a class-action lawsuit, which claims thousands of customers using the “Rent, Try, $1 Buy” scheme were ripped off after signing misleading and dodgy contracts. Law firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, who filed the lawsuit in Sydney’s Federal Court today, claims Radio Rentals targeted low-income and vulnerable customers, who believed they could “rent-to- …
Brazilian miner Vale SA says the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has annulled nearly all parts of a class action lawsuit against the company and executives over the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil in 2015. The only parts of the case, over the Samarco disaster that killed 19 people, that remain ongoing are linked to specific statements made by Vale in 2013 …
A recent, sudden surge in Taxotere lawsuit filings in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana has caught Louisiana Lawsuit Abuse Watch’s attention. According to a news release from Schmidt National Law Group, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation’s Feb. 15 docket report shows 755 pending actions in the Taxotere litigation, up 50 from the panel’s …
The horrific death of an auto parts worker in Ionia, Michigan in 2015, now the subject of a lawsuit, sheds light on the brutal regime existing among this section of workers, some of the most exploited in the United States. William Holbrook filed a wrongful death …
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 …
If you bought tools at Harbor Freight in the last few years, you could be due some money. The company settled a class-action lawsuit that could result in some shoppers getting up to 30% back on their purchases. The class-action suit accused the company of using misleading sale prices.
On the heels of a $400 million round at a $3.4 billion valuation, Instacart has agreed on a $4.65 million fee to settle a class-action lawsuit around claims that the on-demand grocery delivery startup misclassified its personal shoppers as independent contractors, and also failed to reimburse them for their work expenses, Recode reports. There are more than 31,000 Instacart shoppers involved in …
A stockholder has filed a class action lawsuit against Netflix and two of its top executives, alleging the media company understated the impact of its subscription price hike in violation of federal law. James Ziolkowski filed a complaint on behalf of all others similarly situated on March 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California …
A King County family has now filed a lawsuit against the makers of a tainted SoyNut Butter, after their young daughter became sick with E. coli. Food safety attorney Bill Marler said the girl suffered a potentially life-threatening complication from an E. coli infection linked to I.M. Healthy brand SoyNut Butter.
Forty California residents are suing chemical giant Monsanto, alleging that exposure to the company’s Roundup weed killer caused them to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The complaint, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, seeks compensatory and punitive damages from defendants Monsanto Co. and Willbur Ellis Company, LLC., for wrongful death and personal injuries. In the lawsuit, which …