Robert Taylor insists he’s a good guy, but says the state of Virginia has treated him like a bad one ever since he got buried under a pile of unpaid traffic tickets, fees and fines. The 28-year-old Richmond man spends weekends in jail, can’t hold a job and does not know how he will ever pay off the nearly $5,000 he owes the state. “I’m not a criminal in any sense of the word,” Robert Taylor …
Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. announces that a complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased the common stock of Insmed Incorporated (“Insmed” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:INSM) between March 18, 2013 and June 8, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”), …
Comedian Bill Cosby on Thursday dropped the remaining counts of a lawsuit he filed against one of the women accusing him of sexual assault, along with several others, claiming they violated the terms of a confidential settlement in another lawsuit. The dismissal comes 10 days after U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno ruled that Cosby could not sue Andrea Constand, her mother, Gianna Constand, …
A coalition of Civil Rights groups say they will sue the State of Texas to get the justices on the state’s two highest courts, the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, be …
The largest antitrust class action settlement in history was recently put to a halt by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The $7.25 billion proposed settlement includes a group of merchants challenging the fees and regulations of Visa and Mastercard. The plaintiffs claim the defendants have fixed the fees that merchants were charged every time a …
Three US citizens have filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over Updategate. Florida Windows users Al Khafaji, Ahmad Abdulreda and Robert Stahl filed the suit in a federal court, claiming that Microsoft “coerced” them into upgrading to Windows 10 and that the “unintentional” upgrades borked their machines. There have been rumblings all year from customers talking of class-action …
Many ERISA 401(k) plan trustees act as intermediaries when participants request a disbursement. If plan assets are invested in funds, some fund shares will be exchanged for cash, and the cash will then “float” as it makes its way from fund to participant. During that process, the float may sit temporarily in a non-plan, non-participant account, and it might earn interest.
The School District of Lancaster was slapped with a class-action lawsuit Tuesday over its handling of older refugee students. The U.S. District Court suit claims the district steered students to a disciplinary high school, rather than enroll them at McCaskey High School. Six refugees, ages 17-21, are part of the lawsuit.
In this class action lawsuit in a California federal court, Shasta Linen Company and all those similarly situated brought an action against Applied Underwriters, Inc. and its affiliate entities. Shasta Linen alleges that the “EquityComp” workers’ compensation insurance program marketed and sold by Applied Underwriters violated the California Insurance Code and Regulatory provisions by …
Reimbursements to Wells Fargo Bank customers in California continue to be doled out following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in April that denied the bank’s appeal related to a lawsuit involving overdraft fees. Beginning July 1, paper checks were sent to members of a class-action lawsuit who are no longer Wells Fargo customers, according to the bank’s spokesman Kristopher Dahl. Current customers …