Parents Bring Federal Class-Action Lawsuit After Tainted Baby Formula Allegedly Injures Newborn The article describes a new class action lawsuit brought against Abbott Laboratories for allegedly selling tainted baby formula and mishandling a recall. The plaintiff’s attorney is quoted in the article as stating: What we have found is…
Wal-Mart Janitors Try Again to Bring Class Action Suit Over Wages, Hours By Charles Toutant After a federal judge de-certified a class action alleging that Wal-Mart took advantage of illegal aliens and failed to properly pay them by locking them into stores and requiring them to work overtime without,…
Our Chicago attorneys are experienced in handling all kinds of employment litigation for individual and class action lawsuits including race and sex discrimination cases as well as unpaid overtime and wage claims. In our work as nationwide and Chicago wage and hour attorneys, we frequently see workers who have been…
Our Naperville, Illinois consumer rights private law firm handles individual and class action predatory lending, unfair debt collection, lemon law and other consumer fraud cases that government agencies and public interest law firms such as the Illinois Attorney General may not pursue. Class action lawsuits our law firm has been…
About the Lemon Law — powered by eHow.com Our Chicago auto-fraud lawyers focus on bringing suit for auto-fraud claims. We recently settled a suit involving purchase of $9,000 used car that was in reality 3 different cars welded together for $100,000. Our fees come from the recovery and we only…
A federal court in Kansas denied Bank of America motion to dismiss an unpaid overtime lawsuit brought by the Bank’s call center employees. The call center employees claim Bank of America forced them to work without pay during meal breaks and before and after their regular hours due to…
A New York City federal court has allowed Chevron to depose the opposing plaintiffs’ attorney judge. The Court took this unusual step in the toxic tort case against Chevron involving oil contamination in Lago Agrio, Ecuador. Most court’s generally bar the litigants from deposing opposing counsel calling it harrassment.…
In our work as Illinois and nationwide wage and hour attorneys, we frequently see workers who have been misclassified as exempt from overtime. Whether this was an honest mistake or an intentional attempt to save money, it effectively “steals” wages from the misclassified employees. Lubin Austermuehle stands up for the…
In our work as Chicago overtime attorneys we frequently see workers who have been misclassified as exempt from overtime. Whether this was an honest mistake or an intentional attempt to save money, it effectively “steals” wages from the misclassified employees. Lubin Austermuehle stands up for the rights of workers…
National Class Action Status Granted in Conseco Life Insurance Case By Petra Pasternak October 26, 2010 Instead on alleging fraud based on state consumer fraud statutes this article explains that this class action against Conseco relies on a breach of contract claim for the life insurance carrier’s alleged failure…