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Oct-29-13 Renton, WA Leonard Swenson was a lonely Washington state widower with a house, a truck, $90,000 in savings and a regular income. A trusting man with a limited education, Swenson became a target of devastating emotional and financial abuse . Although the details differ, Swenson’s story is not untypical of the estimated 5 million cases of elder f... - Unum: You Win Some, You Lose Some
Mar-26-18 Grand Rapids, MI: While you rarely hear about it, the fact remains that in some cases an insurance company that denies an insured short, or long-term disability benefits sometimes gets it right. To wit, a federal magistrate in Michigan earlier this month determined that Unum Life Insurance Company of America was within its rights to discontinue disability... - Hooters to Pay $1.3M in TCPA Text Message Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: Hooters has agreed to pay $1.3M to settle a proposed Telephone Consumer protection Act (TCPA) class action lawsuit brought by a customer who alleged the restaurant chain sent him a single unsolicited text message. The proposed lawsuit, filed in 2015 by lead plaintiff Michael Etzel, claims Hooters of America LLC (HOA) sent a text me... - New York Urges National Adoption of Force-Placed Insurance Reforms
Aug-12-13 Albany, NY Lost somehow in the shadow of much larger settlements with Assurant Inc. ($14 million) and Wells Fargo Bank ($19.5 million) is a $10 million penalty against QBE Insurance Group Ltd. (QBE) following an investigation by New York’s Department of Financial Services into allegations of price gouging and kickbacks related to the provision of len... - New York State Cracks Down on Illegal Internet Payday Loans
Aug-11-13 Albany, NY Payday lending is already illegal in New York State, as it is in more than a dozen other states in the US. But that hasn’t stopped a myriad of Internet payday lenders from attempting to circumvent state laws by plying their trade online. What online payday lenders may not realize, or perhaps don’t care to know, is that Internet pay... - Pre-Settlement Funding Becoming More Commonplace, but Do Your Homework
Jul-8-13 New York, NY Anyone wary of this latest phenomenon known as pre-settlement funding need only remember back to the genesis of other financial products and strategies commonplace and accepted today. Lease a car lately? There was a time when only corporations and businesses requiring entire fleets of vehicles had access to a car lease. Now, any consume... - The Internet Payday Loan: Interest As High As 1,369 Percent
Jun-16-13 Newark, DE Imagine taking out a loan and being charged an interest rate of 1,369 percent. No, this isn’t the stuff of fiction or some excerpt from a predatory movie. Rather, it remains one example of loan terms charged by an Internet payday loan enterprise called to the carpet by state legislators in Minnesota. According to a report in the St... - Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW Agree $553.6M Settlement in Takata Airbag MDL
Santa Clara, CA: $553.6 million in settlements has been agreed in multi-district litigation (MDL) involving Toyota, Subaru, Mazda and BMW, which will see the automakers pay the sum to end claims brought by plaintiffs over alleged defective Takata airbags. To date, the airbags, which can explode, have been linked with 11 deaths in the US. According... - Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial elder abuse occurs when people cheat senior citizens out of their money or their property. Such elder exploitation can be committed by people the senior knows, such as family members, or complete strangers. Elder abuse cases are often underreported, for a number of reason, but seniors who are victims of financial elder exploitation can file l... - PFAS Linked to Obesity
May-26-23 Kingston, RI A University of Rhode Island study has confirmed that increased PFAS content in blood promotes weight gain and makes it harder to keep a lower body weight after weight loss. Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS/PFOA) “forever chemicals” have previously been linked to a variety of health conditions, including cancers, l... - Veterans Still Seeking Benefits Fifty One Years after Radiation Exposure
Oct-5-17 Meriden, CT: A mid-air collision in 1966 during a military refueling exercise has provided the foundation for a disability claims lawsuit against the US Department of Defense brought by former service personnel who assert exposure to radiation. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday. In a report by the Associated Press (AP) and published by the Rec... - Forced-Placed Insurance Terms Force Homeowners' Wallets
May-30-12 New York, NY The term 'forced-placed insurance' might be one you have yet to hear, but you soon might—especially if you live in a flood-prone area, or if you have a financial liability with a lender having recently discovered the profits made possible by mandating additional forced-placed insurance terms on a homeowner. The Post Standard of... - An Award-Winning Employee Culture at Unum Can’t Stop Lawsuits
May-27-17 Philadelphia, PA: Unum Group, which calls Chattanooga home, may hold a place amongst the Top 500 employers in the US as ranked by Forbes . However, such lofty plaudits have not stopped a Unum lawsuit from a woman who claimed Unum insurance stopped her benefits without just cause. The plaintiff in the case is Melissa Maiellano, who filed her Unum di... - CDC: Preemies and Low Birth Weight Babies Have No Access to Breast Milk at 13 Percent of Neonatal Intensive C
Oct-11-22 Atlanta, GA The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that very low birth weight and premature babies have no access to human donor milk at 13 percent of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in the U.S. Breast milk decreases the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis, a serious illness resulting from inflammation and death of intestinal tissue that... - Attorney Discusses Emergency Room Overcharges
Jan-16-12 Los Angeles, CA Attorney Barry Kramer of the Law Offices of Barry Kramer is representing people nationwide who have either paid, or have been billed, excessive emergency room charges. Typically, it is uninsured patients who are victims of hospital overcharging, and to compound the issue, emergency room costs are increasing. "People who are uninsured oft... - New Balance Hit with California Class Action
Feb-6-17 Los Angeles, CA: The day before the Trump Administration initiated its contentious travel ban against individuals hailing from seven predominantly-Muslim countries, a move in part in support of the Administration’s mandate to safeguard and promote America and American workers, New Balance Athletics Inc. (New Balance) was hit with a putative Califor... - Lawyer Fights for American Student Debt Trap Victims
Nov-20-13 Cromwell, CT Attorney Joshua Cohen may have one of the best perspectives on the student loan debt crisis in America. A thirty-something attorney, Cohen has been intervening on behalf of young Americans caught in the student loan debt crisis for almost five years, and is one of the few lawyers in the US with the knowledge and ability to get people back... - Stock Broker Embezzled $1.5 Million from In-Laws
May-8-11 Honolulu, HI It's bad enough when an individual stands accused of defrauding another individual. It's worse when that individual is a family member. To the ultimate extreme, committing stock broker fraud against your in-laws to the tune of $1.5 million is the ultimate sin, and does little to endear a married man to his most harsh natural critics. Bu... - Camp Lejeune Denied Claims Must Be Resubmitted Under New Act – AKA more Red Tape
Jan-4-23 Wilmington, NC All previously denied Camp Lejeune injury claims need to be resubmitted, according to the new Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022. But many plaintiffs argue that they shouldn’t have to go through the same administrative process again. Just days after the Act went into effect, many Camp Lejeune injury lawsuits were filed by plaintiffs... - SeaWorld Alleged to Be Fishing for Zip Code Info
Feb-28-13 San Diego, CA Your zip code is private information and savvy marketers in the digital age can use that information to generate a detailed profile of your shopping habits, the kind of car you drive, provide information about how much you earn and a lot more. There’s even a black market out there where professional data thieves sell new identities...