Many consumers frequently rely on important information provided by the manufacturer of a product in order to determine whether or not to buy that product. If a product does not list a particular ingredient, such as gluten, which is a protein found in many processed foods, consumers will frequently…
Class action status is an important tool for plaintiffs in many different types of lawsuits. It gives plaintiffs strength in numbers when filing lawsuits against large corporations. It also allows plaintiffs to collect claims which would normally be too small to justify filing a lawsuit if the plaintiff were…
Generally, when filing a lawsuit, the plaintiff has one of two aims: to reap payment for damages incurred; or for the court to order an injunction against the defendant. Many plaintiffs seek both. In the current case against the NCAA regarding the rights of student athletes, the plaintiffs have…
Some companies might want to make sure to be very careful before making large acquisitions. Otherwise they might find themselves fighting a legal battle for something the company being acquired did years ago. Such is the case for HSBC Holdings Plc, a British bank, which has recently been hit…
With the Supreme Court make the criteria for class certification more stringent, cases are still getting certified in the consumer protection and fraud area for products with common design defects. In a recent case against Volvo, a class action of consumers has been certified for a lawsuit against the…
CBS News reports: In a stunning new development, WJZ learns there may be as many as 9,000 victims of a Johns Hopkins gynecologist. Dr. Nikita Levy killed himself after allegations surfaced that he secretly videotaped his patients during exams. Mike Hellgren tells us what else his victims claim…
As with all relationships, business partnerships can sometimes turn out to be more trouble than they are worth. Such was apparently the case in the relationship between Ford Motor Co. and Navistar. Beginning in 1994, Ford had Navistar build every Power Stroke engine used in Ford’s F-Series. However, the…
It is an age old question. If a company finds and harvests gold on someone else’s property, to whom does the gold belong? The company that harvested it or the person who owns the property that the gold was found on? This is the question around which several class action…
Many people these days have come to accept as a fact of modern life that corporations have, and use, some of our personal information. Our browsing history, our shopping history, etc., all get recorded and sold by companies like Facebook and Google. However, according to a new class action…
A St Louis news station reports: A class-action lawsuit was filed this week in St. Louis Circuit Court on behalf of former and current nurses and medical personnel employed by BJC Healthcare System … The lawsuit, Speraneo v. BJC Health System Inc., d/b/a BJC Healthcare, accuses BJC of failing…