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Sort by date 1,824 pages found matching bank of america- $4.3 Million Settlement Tentatively Approved in First Group Class Action
Cincinnati, OH: A tentative $4.3 million settlement has been approved in the class action against First Group America. The national suit, brought by employees of sister companies First Student, which employees school bus drivers, and First Transit, which employs mass transit drivers, claimed the companies obtained criminal background checks on drivers... - State Farm Car Insurance: California Overcharges
Mar-12-07 Los Angeles, CA: According to consumeraffairs.com, the consensus regarding State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company is that it may be a good company, just as long as you never have an accident. And you don't live in California. State Farm has been charging an inappropriate insurance surcharge to its California policy holders from 1997 to 2002... - Boy Scouts Sexual Abuse Agreement
Aug-23-21 Irving, TX A tentative agreement has been reached with the Boy Scouts of America and some 70,000 sexual abuse victims, but there is opposition to the $850 million settlement, including sponsoring churches and insurance companies. Why now? Information kept secret for decades has recently become public knowledge and in its wake thousands of sexual abuse... - Haier America Recalls Chest Freezers Due to Fire Hazard
Washington, DC: Haier America Trading is recalling about 67,500 chest freezers because a capacitor in the freezer's circuitry can overheat, posing a fire hazard. Haier America and CPSC have received reports of 18 incidents, including four reports of fires with minor property damage, consisting of smoke damage, damage to a wall, and food spoilage. T... - Can a TPA’s Exploitation of a Plan Sponsor’s Breach of ERISA Duty Make the TPA a Fiduciary?
Jun-27-24 New York, NY On May 31, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Polk Failla denied Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America’s (TIAA) motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit that accused the insurance giant of aggressive and misleading sales tactics. TIAA’s “fear selling” strategy was crafted to persuade pension plan part... - Mirapex - Mirapex Gambling, Mirapex Compulsive Behavior, Mirapex Side Effects
The Mirapex drug (known generically as pramipexole dihydrochloride), popular in the treatment of Parkinson's disease, has been linked to serious side effects. These Mirapex side effects include an increased risk of compulsive behavior. Specifically, a link has been found between Mirapex and compulsive gambling or other compulsive behavior, including sh... - Bayer’s Monsanto Roundup Update
Jun-20-24 Philadelphia, PA The last few months have been busy for both Bayer and plaintiffs alleging Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer . The Philadelphia court slashed a Pennsylvania man’s verdict from $2.25 billion to $400 million and Roundup cases continue to be filed in the multi-district litigation. As for Bayer, it is looking to lawmakers for suppor... - Spinach Recalled due to Possible Listeria Contamination
Washington, DC: Lancaster Foods, LLC is recalling fresh Spinach with the Best Enjoyed By dates of 19 JUN 10 through 27 JUN 10 sold under the brand names Krisp-Pak, Lancaster Fresh, Giant, and America's Choice because they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The recall extends only to products with this Use-by Date or Product Code... - Citigroup Engaged in Recessionary Discrimination says Attorney Wigdor
Mar-13-09 New York, NY: According to Douglas Wigdor, an astute young lawyer at Thompson, Wigdor & Gilly in New York City, the current economic conditions are a golden opportunity for companies to practice a kind of stealth employee discrimination . Among the streams of American workers headed for the door, Wigdor sees a disproportionate number of women, blacks, Lat... - Good Lawyering in Modern America
May-18-11 Denver, CO A few years ago, attorney Peter Burg took down all the expensive art on the wall opposite his desk in his Denver office and replaced it with dozens of pictures of people, as he says, he's "been honored to represent." Some are from personal injury cases, others from class-action suits. It's his way of keeping his moral compass true and stead... - RBS Agrees $275M Settlement in Consumer Financial Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: A consumer financial fraud class action lawsuit pending against Royal Bank of Scotland Group, PLC has reached preliminary settlement, with the bank agreeing to pay $275 million. The lawsuit was brought by New Jersey Carpenters Vacation Fund et al. against the financial institution alleging it misled investors regarding mortgage-backed... - DOL Charges TPA Embezzled ERISA Plan Assets
Mar-18-24 Pittsburgh, PA On February 5, the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a Temporary Restraining Order barring RiversEdge Advanced Retirement Systems, LLC and Paul Palguta, the company’s sole owner and president, from accessing the assets of various ERISA retirement plans . The Department of Labor has accused the third-party administrator of... - Calling All Corporate Executives with Inside Dirt—"Especially Women"
Jan-15-11 Washington DC Millions of dollars in financial incentives are available to executives and former executives who expose wrongdoing inside corporate America, and the National Whistleblowers Center in Washington, DC, is encouraging those people with knowledge of dirty dealing to come forward. "There is a reward for coming forward and just telling the t... - Cintas Settles Overtime Class Action for $22.75 Million
Cintas Settles Overtime Class Action for $22.75 Million This week hundreds of delivery drivers at the nation's largest uniform provider, Cintas, were notified a $22.75 million settlement agreement had been reached in the class action overtime lawsuit, Veliz v. Cintas Corporation. It was a long road for the uniform delivery drivers, whose suit, filed in... - $11.5M Settlement Reached in RBS Citizens Bank Unpaid Overtime Class Action Lawsuit
New York, NY: An $11.5 million settlement is pending in an unpaid overtime class action lawsuit against RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. The lawsuit is brought by employees against the financial institution and two of its subsidiaries alleging they failed to adequately compensate employees for overtime pay. All six of the complaints, which have... - Documents Win $20 Million for Boy Scout Sex Abuse Victim
May-13-10 Portland, OR A jury in Portland, Oregon recently returned a $20 million dollar verdict ($19,900,000) against the Boy Scouts of America after previously unseen documents obtained by the plaintiff's legal counsel showed that the organization knew as far back as the 1920s that it had a sex abuse problem. "I think the duration and the volume of the chil... - Incarcerated People Work for Aramark Without Pay
May-8-24 Alameda County, CA The California Supreme Court has ruled in the lawsuit Ruelas v. County of Alameda that the state’s minimum wage law does not apply to people working for private companies while they are held in pretrial detention in California’s jails. The California labor lawsuit was filed by the ACLU on behalf of people incarcerated at t... - Preferred Stock - Preferred Securities
Preferred securities are a mix of debt and equity investments. They offer a fixed dividend payment similar to bonds but they can fluctuate in value. Preferred stocks are typically marketed to investors who are averse to risk and looking for dividend income rather than capital gain. While preferred securities do not experience upward price swings in the w... - Video game giant to pay $21 million settlement in patent lawsuit.
Seattle, WA: (May-15-08) Anascape Ltd., of Tyler, TX, brought a lawsuit against Nintendo of America and Microsoft Corp., claiming that there were several patents that they infringed upon, related to game controllers. Court papers reveal that Anascape settled with Microsoft early in May 2008, though the terms of the agreement were not made public. In a re... - Safety Alert: Petzl America Warns of Burn Hazard from Headlamps
Product Should not be Used with Rechargeable Batteries Petzl America in conjunction with the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a safety alert for approximately 330,000 MYO and MYO Belt headlamps. If the headlamp is used with rechargeable batteries, the cable connecting the battery pack to the lamp can spark, melt, or catch fire. This poses...