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Mar-31-13 Pittsburgh, PA The issue of whether or not to buy a home warranty is one that many homeowners face. After all, there may be issues in the home that require expensive repairs, and a home warranty can help to cover those costs. The problem, as some home warranty lawsuits allege, is when consumers have their insurance claim denied on unreasonable grounds... - California Donning & Doffing Lawsuit News & Legal Information
California employees have filed lawsuits alleging they are not properly paid for time spent donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE ) and other safety gear, special uniforms or other clothing required for their jobs. In addition to putting on and taking off work gear, such wage and hour lawsuits may also encompass allegations involvi... - Anthem Inc. medical billing
This case has been settled. Please visit our Homepage to view active cases. Class-action status has been granted in a medical billing lawsuit against health care benefits company Anthem Inc. The two Indiana doctors who have launched the suit are challenging Anthem's practice of sending insurance reimbursement checks to their patients rather than... - Royce and Mary Evans Gavilan Fire Damage Settlement
Fallbrook, CA: (Feb-07-07) Multiple lawsuits filed in the Superior Court over the cause of the Gavilan fire that ravaged Fallbrook in 2002, reached joint settlement in 2006 according to court records. The lawsuits claimed that embers left over from a cleanup effort on Evans Ranch caused the Gavilan fire. However, ranch owners denied the allegations, a... - Boy Scouts of America Sex Abuse Settlement – For and Against
Oct-25-21 Los Angeles, CA Voting a settlement of almost $1.9 billion to compensate over 82,000 Boy Scouts of America sexual abuse victims has begun with a December 14, 2021 deadline to vote for the Plan. But many survivors and their attorneys oppose the current proposal. 82,000 Victims The number of claims two decades ago. By 2019 over 12,000 victims –... - GE Capital Bank PPI Fraud Settlement
The Financial Services Authority clamped down on GE Capital Bank for rogue sales of payment protection insurance (PPI) policies. The bank also failed to have adequate systems and controls for selling insurance. Investigations revealed that insufficient sales training and unsatisfactory customer service were just few of GE Capital Bank's failings. A fine... - Allstate Insurance Co.
Reading, PA: When she was fired May 7, 2002, the Philadelphia office of the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit on behalf of Joyce Johnson-Clayter, 50, of Reading, PA. When African American Johnson-Clayter was working as a customer service representative at Encompass Insurance, a division of Allstate, her lawsuit claimed that he... - First American Title Insurance Co. Real Estate Incentives Settlement
Orange County, CA: First American Title Insurance Co. has quietly agreed to pay $10 million to settle allegations by California regulators that the company illegally drummed up business by making cash payments and other inducements to real estate professionals that included free software, tickets to rock concerts, chartered fishing trips, riverboat dinn... - Dentist Claims Injury, Unum Claims Sickness to Deny
Sep-13-18 San Diego, CA: A dental surgeon has filed a bad faith lawsuit against Unum, or First Unum after the giant insurer denied his long term disability benefits claiming his injury is a sickness. The Unum lawsuit claims that Unum denied the dentist his rightful benefits to protect their own interests. In September 2014 Dr. Frank L. Pavel sustained severe in... - Bowie County, TX Employee Whistleblower Settlement
Marshall, TX: Bowie County Juvenile Detention Center employee Karen Foster filed a lawsuit against the county after she was allegedly unlawfully retaliated against for making a good faith report to law enforcement agencies in regard to a violation of law by another public employee. The case was filed in the US District Court's Eastern Texas District cla... - Indigo Creek Holdings, Inc. Stock Certificates Settlement
Retired hotel owner Mike Modi purchased 20 shares of stock for $1 million from the developer that was to be used as capital to enable it to immediately begin selling life insurance policies in the worker's compensation area. Modi was told the company could immediately generate over $20 million in insurance policy premiums through underwriting business w... - When Home Warranties Go Wrong
Feb-17-13 Omaha, NE When homeowners purchase appliances, they often purchase home warranty insurance to protect themselves. After all, appliances can be expensive to replace - and can cause extensive damage when they break down. Getting a home warranty seems like a good idea, until the home warranty companies fail to honor their agreement and consumers find thei... - Composix Kugel Mesh Hernia Repair Patch
The Kugel Mesh patch was first recalled in 2005, after the FDA received reports that the Composix Kugel Mesh patch had caused many severe injuries. Two more Kugel Mesh recalls followed. Since that time, thousands of Kugel Mesh lawsuits have been filed against Davol, Inc. and its parent company Bard, and many more hernia patients with Composix Kugel Me... - Brown & Brown Inc. Contingent Commissions Settlement
Tallahassee, FL: Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist, Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, and Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty filed charges against the brokerage firm for allegedly accepting undisclosed contingent commissions. Brown & Brown has agreed to adhere to stricter compensation disclosure requirements and fully disclos... - A Loss and a Win (Sort of) for GrubHub Drivers
Oct-10-21 San Francisco, CA On September 20, the Ninth Circuit partially dismissed, partially upheld and remanded back to the District Court a GrubHub driver’s claim that he was owed back wages and other remedies under the California Labor Code and related wage orders. Raef Lawson v. Grubhub is a complicated decision, but there is some positive news... - Lawsuit: Philips Knew CPAP Sleep Machines Link to Cancer
Jul-28-22 Santa Clara, CA Philips has been slammed with another Dreamstation lawsuit , alleging the company knew its sleep machines could cause cancers and other injuries years before the world-wide recall. Mario Olivares filed the lawsuit mid-June in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, claiming that Philips knew for years that its... - PFAS Breast Cancer Lawsuit and PFAS Links to Breast Cancer
Sep-22-21 Charleston, SC A Maryland woman in August filed a PFAS lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina claiming she developed breast cancer as a result of drinking water contaminated with firefighting foam chemicals for years. Nigora Akhmedova, diagnosed with breast cancer 2018, has been drinking the local water in Anne Arun... - FDA Issues Strong Warnings over 1-800-Get Thin Lap-Band
Los Angeles, CA: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently stated that the 1-800-GET-THIN marketing company uses misleading advertising to promote the company's Lap-Band weight-loss surgery. The FDA says that the billboard, radio and television ads underplay serious risks to patient health. In the FDA news release of December 11, 2011, the... - New Jersey School Board Guidance Counselor Student Settlement
Bayonne, NJ: When Christopher Castlegrande was a 15-year-old student he had sexual relations with his guidance counselor Diane Cherchio West. Castlegrand filed a federal suit in 2004 against the Bayonne Board of Education and eight individual current and former school employees, including three superintendents, alleging they failed to protect him from b... - Unum's Independent Medical Examiners and Differing Diagnoses
Aug-18-09 Florence, KY According to many people who have been denied Unum health insurance benefits, their doctors' diagnoses and those of Unum's independent medical examiners (IME) are not on the same page. Renata (name withheld) is disabled; even though she wants to go back to work as an ER nurse she can't. But the IME says she is fully able to work so she wa...