Communications giant Comcast is facing a lawsuit in Missouri. This is a class-action lawsuit, seeking compensation and punitive damages for all Missouri Comcast customers who purchased the protection plan after August of 2011.
Millions of Americans live with the possibility that, at any moment, their wages or the cash in their bank accounts could be seized over an old debt. It’s an easily ignored part of America’s financial system, in part due to a common attitude that people who don’t pay their debts deserve what’s coming to them. A couple of years ago, we set out to find out more about the growing use of the courts …
[Update] When a federal judge in Texas handed down a $663 million fraud verdict last summer against the Dallas-based maker of guardrails used on highways all over the country, a lot of people started seeing dollar signs, …
ST. LOUIS • A St. Louis jury delivered a defense verdict Thursday in a class-action suit that was seeking about $1.5 billion from tobacco giant Philip Morris. The jury deliberated less than an hour after a month-long trial, in which the plaintiffs alleged the company had deceived customers into believing light cigarettes were safer than regular cigarettes when they weren’t. The outcome would …