A panel of state appellate justices could have simply found an insurer wasn’t obligated to pay to cover a $4 million settlement reached to end a lawsuit brought by a suburban engineering firm that claimed it had received so-called “junk fax” advertisements. But the justices used the occasion to also send a message to the lawyers it says are responsible for a “proliferation” of potential junk …
Rutgers University has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by former men’s basketball player Derrick Randall, who claimed he was “chronically and heinously targeted and abused, both physically and psychologically,” by former coach Mike Rice. Filed in federal court on Dec. 6, 2013, the lawsuit was settled April 7, according to court documents. The settlement came after …
Rich Williams continues tidying up at Groupon, selling off some of the bits and pieces collected over the years that the company no longer wants or can afford. Groupon sold Breadcrumb, a point-of-sale checkout system for restaurants that uses iPads, to Upserve, a Providence, R.I.-based company that makes software used by restaurants to manage operations. In the past year, Chicago-based Groupon …
Drivers who worked for ride-hailing service Uber in California and Massachusetts over the past seven years would have been entitled to an estimated $730 million in expense reimbursements had they been employees rather than contractors, according to court documents made public on Monday. Uber and smaller rival Lyft are attempting to settle lawsuits by drivers who contend they …
Lumber Liquidators reported a wider-than-expected first-quarter loss and sales declined for a fifth straight quarter as the Toano-based flooring company spends heavily to put behind it damaging reports on potentially dangerous products imported from China. The company will contribute $26 million and a million of its shares to a settlement fund to resolve a related class action. That follows an …
Uber drivers may be settling for about 12% of the total amount they could have received at trial. Uber Technologies Inc. reached a $100 million settlement agreement in April for two class-action lawsuits brought by drivers who argued that they should be employees and were owed reimbursement. But, according to documents released this week, if drivers in both cases had won on trials on a class- …
Air New Zealand has agreed to pay $US35 million ($A47.57 million) to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US. The action by freight forwarding companies claimed airlines colluded over cargo fuel and security surcharges between 2000 and 2006. New Zealand’s national carrier was one of only two airlines still holding out in the suit – the other being Air India – after 26 airlines cut settlement …
Bought a show ticket through Ticketmaster in the last decade or two? If so, a newly landing email declaring you are due “benefits” in a class-action lawsuit – Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster – is legit, not some Nigerian get-rich scam. Still, the terms and nature of the win may make you wonder, “Why bother?”
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is being sued by an Illinois woman who claims that the coffee chain “underfills” its iced beverages. The complainant states that a venti cold drink only contains 14 ounces of a beverage, and only reaches the advertised 24 ounces after ice is added. If the complaint is approved as a class action suit, Starbucks could be sued for over $5 million on behalf of everyone in …
Those dreams never materialized. InfoSpan is represented by the powerhouse law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner — chaired by David Boies, among the country’s most well-known attorneys — while the bank hired Latham & Watkins, a large firm with offices worldwide, including in the Emirates. FOR THE RECORD The wealthy Persian Gulf region was of particular interest because of its reliance on 25 …