A deal involving Michigan’s largest health insurance company and dozens of hospitals cost patients and businesses an extra $118 million, an expert estimates. But those insurance customers will likely get little to no compensation from the consequential settlements, Target 8 …
You may not know the maker, Rexall. But you should know all the brand names its Glucosamine supplement is sold under. They include Target, CVS, Walgreens, Kroger, Kirkland and Safeway.
AUSTIN – The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California has rejected a proposed settlement of a class action lawsuit filed against Similasan Corp. that alleges false and deceptive labeling of Similasan’s homeopathic products. Under the proposed settlement in Allen v. Similasan Corp., class attorneys and two plaintiffs would have been paid, but affected consumers would not have …
The federal judge overseeing a proposed class action settlement involving millions of allegedly defective Remington firearms says the parties can go ahead with a revised plan to notify gun owners of their right to get the triggers replaced. But in a unique twist, the judge is delaying final approval of the settlement until he sees how many people file claims. The case involves Remington’s …
On Thursday, a U.S. District Court in San Francisco rejected a settlement Uber Technologies has reached with thousands of its drivers following a couple of class-action lawsuits as being unfair and unreasonable for drivers. Both sides were ordered to discuss the issue again in private and show up in court Sept. 15. Uber agreed to review its stance, but said that the April …
Angie’s List Inc. has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit claiming it manipulated search results and ratings to favor advertisers—claims that the home-services company denies. Judge Stewart Dalzell of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania signed off on the settlement proposal last month and signed a scheduling order earlier this month. In recent …
ALL PERSONS OR ENTITIES WHO PURCHASED OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRED ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC. COMMON STOCK DURING THE PERIOD FROM FEBRUARY 5, 2010 THROUGH NOVEMBER 20, 2012, AND WHO WERE DAMAGED THEREBY (THE “CLASS”).1 Certain persons and entities are excluded from the definition of the Class as set forth in detail in the Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement dated July 7, 2016 (the “Stipulation”) …
On January 20, 2016, the Supreme Court held in Campbell-Ewald v. Gomez, 136 S. Ct. 663, 672, 193 L. Ed. 2d 571 (2016) that an unaccepted pre-certification settlement offer of complete relief in a putative class action, made to an individual plaintiff, does not moot that plaintiff’s claims. As discussed in our previous coverage of Campbell-Ewald, the Supreme Court’s …
Attorneys representing plaintiffs in a shareholder class action against health care company Castlight Health fully expect those allegedly wronged to accept a settlement. Details of the settlement against the San Francisco-headquartered company have been revealed, and it includes Castlight paying aggrieved share buyers $9.5 million. Castlight, a health information cloud-based …
There is one big reason why Uber drivers have been able to pursue class actions against the company in federal court in California: the state’s one-of-a-kind Private Attorney General Act, which allows employees to sue for labor code violation in the name of the state. As a matter of public policy, according to a 2014 decision from the California Supreme Court, companies cannot …