Last week, victims of Robert Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme filed another class action lawsuit against the law firm that, they allege, helped the former chairman and CEO conceal the fraudulent scheme from government regulators. The named plaintiffs, Sandra Dorrell and Phillip A. Wilkinson, both Texas residents, filed their complaint in the U.S. District Court for the …
Emerson Scott, LLP announces the filing of a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of a California and a nationwide class of persons with Transamerica universal life insurance policies who had sudden increases in their monthly deductions …
Uber’s recently announced $100 million settlement to resolve the O’Connor v. Uber Technologies, Inc. class action, in which plaintiffs sought an order deeming them employees, rather than independent contractors, already faces objections from an unlikely source — plaintiffs’ attorneys leading other putative class actions against Uber that would be resolved under the terms of the settlement. …
Lawsuit alleges Dometic sold defective refrigerators A class-action lawsuit against Dometic alleging that the company sold faulty refrigerators included this picture and said the damage to this RV was due to a flawed unit. Hagens Berman, a group that has leveraged successful class-action litigation against giants such as Philip Morris and is taking on Volkswagen for its role in the emissions …
A group of people affected by toxic humidifier sterilizers plan to file a class-action lawsuit next month against the manufacturers, distributors and the government. The group of plaintiffs, the Asian Citizen’s Center for Environment and Health, and Lawyers for a Democratic Society or Minbyun held a news conference on Tuesday in southern Seoul to announce the plan. Minbyun lawyers who will …
Chanel has scored a major victory in a lawsuit filed against it by a group of employees at its Beverly Hills store. According to the proposed class action suit filed in December 2015 by shipping department employees Cristian Luna, Anthony Hernandez and Javier Delgado, Chanel failed to pay them and others overtime compensation and minimum wage for overtime hours worked in violation of both …
The class-action lawsuit filed against Trump University has been scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Friday, May 6. Former Trump University students filed a case to unseal documents. The plaintiffs claimed that Trump University pitched them expensive real estate course work, sometimes amounting to tens of thousands of dollars, for real estate seminars where students learned only a little.
Volkswagen said it has reached a framework agreement with class action plaintiffs in U.S. court proceedings on Thursday. The accord with class action plaintiffs will result in “a comprehensive settlement” in coming weeks, Volkswagen (VW) said in an emailed statement published by its Wolfsburg, Germany-based headquarters. The German carmaker and the U.S. Justice Department…
The defendants in a class action lawsuit, brought by a Florida chiropractor against a group of insurers for allegedly breaching a patient’s insurance agreement, recently decided to withdraw their request to separate discovery into two phases. On April 1, Garrison Property & Casualty Insurance Company, USAA Casualty Insurance Company, USAA General Indemnity Company and…
A federal judge may have dealt a serious blow to people suing over the Flint water crisis. U.S. District judge John Corbett O’Meara dismissed the class-action suit after finding the claims made by Flint residents couldn’t be resolved in federal court. At issue are claims made by the plaintiffs in the case that their constitutional rights and state law were…