Posts tagged Class Action

• U.S. Supreme Court Makes It Harder to Sue Companies for Defrauding Investors

  Rebecca Castell | June 22, 2007 12:32 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In a painful example of the pro-business, anti-consumer attitude of the current US Supreme Court, the Court ruled that investors who want to sue companies and executives for fraud have a higher burden to meet to get their case to court.The court on Thursday waded into the debate on the defendants' side. By a vote of 8 to 1, it said that investors must show "cogent and compelling" evidence of...

• Judge overrules request for class action case against Allstate

  Rebecca Castell | November 06, 2006 1:48 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last week, Fayette Circuit Judge Thomas Clark overruled a Kentucky woman's request to represent a class of plaintiffs in an action against the nation's second largest insurer, Allstate Insurance. The complaint alleged that the company had employed practices designed to punish injury victims who pursued claims for their injuries. Lawyers for Geneva Hager have accused Allstate of illegally...

• Toxic Emissions are Harmless? Get Real!

  Justin Madden | October 18, 2006 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Daily, emissions from power plant smokestacks descend upon residential communities, coating cars and homes with substances that often peel the paint.The plant owners assure the citizens there is nothing to worry about. Really?Human tissue, internal and external, supposedly can withstand toxic emissions better than car paint and house paint?If smokestack emissions coat and cover your home, or...

• Pay Day Lenders are Bad News for Consumers

  Jack Landskroner | September 08, 2006 10:02 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Payday loans are small cash advances, usually of $500 or less. To get a loan, a borrower gives a payday lender a postdated personal check or an authorization for automatic withdrawal from the borrower's bank account. In return, he receives cash, minus the lender's fees. For example, with a $300 payday loan, a consumer might pay $45 in fees and get $255 in cash. The lender holds the check or...

• Florida Supreme Court Opens Door For Smokers' Individual Claims

  Jack Landskroner | August 18, 2006 10:28 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Despite the national class action settlement entered into with the states some years ago for the reimbursement of costs paid out for smoking related health care, the Tobacco Companies remain liable to the smokers for deceptive practices which mislead smokers and the general public in the failure to disclose material facts concerning the health affects or addictive nature of smoking cigarettes....

• Public Interest Law Firm Fights To Protect Consumer Rights

  Jack Landskroner | August 14, 2006 10:03 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Thank goodness for the work of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ), the nation's public interest civil law firm. This oganization has done more in its 25 year history to protect the rights of consumers, hold those accountable who abuse their authority, fight discrimination and protect the environment than almost any other organization in this nation. (TLPJ) has recently created yet another...

• Major Ohio Cities File Class Action to Recover Back Taxes

  Jack Landskroner | August 10, 2006 10:42 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  While big business and their lobbyist continue to try to undermine the rights of consumers ability to bring class actions lawsuits and in turn try to prevent consumers from banding together to pursue their collective claims for widespread unscrupulous conduct, State and Local governments quietly are endorsing the use of class action lawsuits as an effective mechanism to secure their own...

• Injured Workers Will Get $52 Million Back From Ohio Bureau Of Workers' Compensation

  Jack Landskroner | July 24, 2006 4:59 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Money which was improperly collected and retained from injured Ohio workers through the Ohio's workers compensation Bureau (BWC) will be paid back as the result of a successful consumer class action law suit. The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation will return $52 million collected from about 7,900 workers who were injured between 1993 and 2001. The workers initially received money from third...

• Antitrust Litigation

  Paul Grieco | July 05, 2006 1:06 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  When individual consumers or businesses have been victimized by monopolization, price -fixing , restraint of trade or other anti-competitive conduct, legal claims based upon federal and state antitrust laws allow an injured party to seek both economic relief as well as injunctive relief. Federal law under the Clayton Act allows a successful party to recover treble damages (three times economic...