Sentences with phrase «behalf of consumers»

ICC arbitration of a contract dispute with a Greek distributor on behalf of a consumer products company.

$ 10 million recovered in a class action lawsuit on behalf of consumers financially harmed by the deceptive practices of a national retailer.

Almost all debt settlement companies charge a large portion of their fees in advance before they perform any significant services on behalf of the consumer.

Charney Lawyers, together with another law firm, filed a national class action against Maple Leaf Foods to recover damages on behalf of consumers who purchased or ate Maple Leaf Food Products which were contaminated with listeria.

A lawsuit seeking to be certified as a class action has been filed on behalf of consumers in New York and California against the owner of Quaker Oats after testing found traces of the herbicide glyphosate in some oatmeal.

As a dedicated advocate in the capitol and the courtroom, Ms. Kroeger has been vocal in the Florida legislature lobbying on behalf of consumers for vehicle and child passenger safety.

(6) «Debt management plan» or «DMP» means a program in which an organization agrees to engage in debt settlement or debt pooling and distribution services on behalf of a consumer with the consumer's creditors and under which the consumer gives money or control of his funds to the organization for distribution to the consumer's creditors.

Apple and five major publishing houses are being sued by a Seattle - based law firm, Hagens Berman, on behalf of two plaintiffs named in the suit and on behalf of consumers as a... [Read more...]

Thanks to a tipster (send in your tips here) we discover that NoteWorld was just hit with a lawsuit on behalf of consumers against Noteworld, LLC («Noteworld»), claiming the Tacoma, Wash. company has violated the Racketeer Influenced...

«The FTC will not hesitate to act on behalf of consumers when companies or advertisers make false product claims.»

Hagens Berman has also taken on other automakers on behalf of consumers throughout the United States for safety defects and negligence, and your claim will be handled by experts in automotive consumer law.

CSPI is a nonprofit organization dealing with food and nutrition issues advocating on behalf of consumers including education on genetically engineered foods (GE) and ingredients.

Contractual partners who have access to your Personal Data in order to provide services to you on behalf of The Consumer Goods Forum are contractually obliged to keep such information in confidence and may not use these Personal Data for any other purpose.

Additionally, I'm especially proud of the exemplary bipartisan cooperation on both the state and federal level on this matter, which involved 54 states and jurisdictions working together on behalf of consumers across the country.»

-- The Electronic Frontier Foundation continues its work on behalf of consumers looking for transparency and fairness in copyright law.

The CFPB, charged with working on behalf of consumers regarding financial products will act as a mediator between you and the card - issuing bank until the issue is resolved.

Debt settlement companies act on behalf of consumer debtors to help them clear their debts.

In his role, Mr. Leopold litigates high - stakes, complex lawsuits on behalf of consumer safety issues, particularly as it relates to product defects, automobile safety and managed care matters.

Section 47B Competition Act 1988 was intended to allow consumer bodies to bring proceedings on behalf of consumers where there was anti-competitive price fixing.

We also now have the prospect in the Consumer Rights Bill of seeing practical provisions bringing into effect the plans announced by the Government to introduce opt - out for follow - on claims for price fixing on behalf of consumers along the lines of US style class actions.

View our Representative Settlements for examples of large recoveries we obtained on behalf of our consumer clients.

Retail Security Breach Litig., No. 1:07 - cv -10162-WGY (D. Mass.), a multidistrict class action brought on behalf of consumers whose personal and financial data was compromised in the then - largest theft of personal data in history.

Mr. Smith appeared on behalf of the Consumer Data Industry Association to discuss the nationwide credit reporting system and data security procedures enacted to...

Ownership — We believe that all information yielded by work done on behalf of consumers of legal services is owned by those consumers, and as such should be deployed for the benefit of those consumers.

For one, we are ranked as a top sunscreen by the Environmental Working Group — they work on behalf of consumers like you, not for businesses like us.

«AARP will continue its efforts to fight on behalf of consumers who want financial advice in their best interest.

The two work for Medliminal, a company that challenges erroneous and inflated medical bills on behalf of consumers in exchange for a share of the savings.

(7) «Debt settlement» means any action or negotiation initiated or taken by or on behalf of a consumer with a creditor of the consumer for the purpose of obtaining debt forgiveness of a portion of the credit extended by the creditor to the consumer or a reduction of payments, charges, or fees payable by the consumer.

Mr. Shiftan is currently litigating a variety of cases, including antitrust litigation on behalf of college football and basketball players against the NCAA and various athletic conferences, a wage and hour case on behalf of minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball, and an antitrust case on behalf of consumers against Carolinas HealthCare System for anticompetitive practices in the healthcare industry.

«The government should use the Data Protection Bill to give independent bodies the power to seek collective redress on behalf of consumers when a company has failed to take sufficient action following a data breach.»

As a result, the quality of the remaining firms is much higher (for example, more consistent training for brokers, better technological enablement, greater negotiating power with large lenders on behalf of consumers for better products and rates).

An amended class - action complaint was filed June 8, 2015, against the Nestlé Purina PetCare Company on behalf of consumers who purchased Beneful brand dog food and had pets suffer from internal organ injury or failure and death.

The first German consumer to file a lawsuit against VW has been identified; and many are sure to follow on the continent and in the U.S. West Virginia's attorney - general also has filed suit against VW on behalf of consumers in that state who were allegedly deceived.

Rather than seeing Bitcoin as a democratic vehicle for change, the individuals and companies that focus on Bitcoin are progressively acting like the big banks that I have sued on behalf of consumers in my many years as a class action lawyer.

I have to say your Zero Complaint Team really do fight on behalf of consumers.

Beyond recommendations, voice assistants may instead be empowered to make choices on behalf of consumers.

The closest counterpart is the Competition Bureau, an independent law - enforcement agency that applies the government's Competition Act on behalf of consumers to everything from bogus telemarketing prize schemes to corporate mergers to the regulation of clothing labels.

Jackie, originally from Sheffield, now lives in Purfleet and is a policy adviser at the Financial Services Consumer Panel where she works on behalf of consumers to get fairer treatment from financial institutions.

«You'd have to search long and hard to find a leader with a stronger record of standing up to credit card companies and banks on behalf of consumers,» the campaign said.

The two work for Medliminal, a company that challenges erroneous and inflated medical bills on behalf of consumers in exchange for a share of the savings.

Most importantly, the EPA does not offer the «right to know» information Congress required on behalf of consumers in 1996: how to avoid pesticide exposures while still eating a healthy diet.

«CSPI's litigation department is acting as co-counsel in a class action lawsuit against PepsiCo, on behalf of consumers who purchased Naked Juice products that were falsely and misleadingly labeled as 100 % Juice 100 % Fruit «ALL NATURAL» suggesting that the beverages» vitamin content is due to the nutritious fruits and juices, rather than the added synthetic compounds such as calcium pantothenate (synthetically produced from formaldehyde).