Sentences with phrase «dollar class action claim»
For example, it obtained a dismissal of a multibillion - dollar class action claim on behalf of Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd. at the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2005's David Polowin Real Estate Ltd. v. Dominion of Canada General Insurance Co..
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Participated in the defense of a multi-national shipping company in a federal antitrust class action involving price - fixing claims in excess of one billion dollars
«The proposed class members are entitled at the very least to a representative plaintiff who can be counted on to take her job seriously, review key documents and demonstrate an appropriate level of interest in a class action that is being brought in her name and that is claiming hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.»
She has a record of success, including obtaining a complete dismissal, prior to discovery, in a multi-district class action claiming damages of hundreds of millions of dollars resulting from an alleged Ponzi scheme.
Lead trial counsel in the first medical products class action / common issues trial tried to verdict in Canada (146 trial days), successfully defending one of the world's leading manufacturers of life - saving cardiac devices in a national class action claiming more than a billion dollars in damages (awarded 2013 Canadian Product Liability Impact Case of the Year by LMG Life Sciences)
If these thousand workers are able to join together into a class action, however, their million dollar claim suddenly becomes very attractive to top litigators — and the hassle of litigation will be virtually non-existent for most of the plaintiffs.
Class actions enable many individuals with similar legal claims to join together into a single lawsuit, and it is one of the most important mechanisms to ensure that relatively small dollar claims are actually vindicated in court.
On a different subject, I note that «Class action advocates say most individuals and small businesses simply can't afford to arbitrate claims that are worth a few hundred or thousand dollars.
Fifth Third Bank now joins Bank of America in the courtroom — both have, as of Friday, been hit with putative class action lawsuits claiming they gained millions of dollars in illegal referrals and kickbacks from private mortgage insurers.