Deadlines in a $30 million class action settlement with Wells Fargo over alleged violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act have been pushed back to avoid an additional $900,000 in costs by the class. The settlement, which amounts to $30,446,022.75, was preliminarily approved by Judge Richard Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District …
The Florida Department of Corrections and former prison health-care provider Corizon have agreed to pay about $2.1 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the state agency and the company denied hernia operations to inmates to save money. Under the settlement, Corizon agreed to pay $1.7 million to current and former inmates. The Department of Corrections agreed to pay $150,000 …
Some lawsuits just make you want to roll your eyes. Take, for instance, two different cases over eye drops. In one case, a federal class action lawsuit that has been certified against several drug companies, claiming that the dispenser on their prescription eye drop bottles is too large, causing excessive drops to roll down the plaintiffs’ cheeks.
A federal lawsuit filed last week accuses Gadsden’s municipal court judge and prosecutor of violating the constitutional rights of one woman by charging unlawful fees and preventing an open court. Alexander City attorney Eric Hutchins filed the lawsuit on behalf of Lasheta McGruder, who appeared in court on a tampering with evidence charge. According to the suit, filed Sept. 1, McGruder was …
Cincinnati attorney Carl Lewis says he will become one of the first lawyers in the United States to file a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the EpiPen over skyrocketing costs Tuesday morning. The price of the EpiPen, a device designed to combat life-threatening allergic reactions, has climbed from about $100 in 2007 to $600 to $700 for a pack of two in 2016. The …
A federal judge in Texarkana has granted class action certification in two lawsuits accusing major insurance companies of unlawfully depreciating labor costs in claims for property damage in Arkansas. The suits accuse State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and American Modern Home Insurance Co. of improperly depreciating the value of labor costs when …
A settlement between SiriusXM and Francis W. Hooker, Jr., who brought suit against the company in 2012, has been submitted to Arenda L. Wright Allen, the Eastern District of Virginia judge appointed to the case. If approved, SiriusXM would establish a $35 million settlement fund from which “notice, administrative costs, service awards, and attorneys fees, costs, and other expenses” would be …
If customers who incurred unnecessary expenses to attend the NFL game in Canton that wasn’t played in Canton (or anywhere else) on Sunday night want to be reimbursed for those expenses, they’ll have to hire a lawyer. The Hall of Fame has posted at its website the procedures for obtaining a refund, and the policy refers only to the price of the tickets. The window for obtaining refunds will be …
Modesto has agreed to pay $850,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against the city that claimed one of its officers used excessive force and was negligent when he shot a distraught, suicidal man armed with a pocketknife in 2010. The shooting left Brian Reed, 46 – a former truck driver and dispatcher – disabled and with cognitive deficits because of the lack of oxygen to his brain after being …
The private company that operated Ann Arbor’s recycling plant for the last several years is suing the city. Resource Recovery Systems LLC and FCR LLC, commonly known as ReCommunity, filed a complaint in federal court on Wednesday, July 27, claiming the city wrongfully terminated its contract. The company claims the city breached its contract, broke promises and unjustly enriched …