Sentences with phrase «more class action claims»

Official statistics show that lower court decisions tend to favor plaintiffs, but that state appeals courts have dismissed more class action claims than they have upheld.

Not exact matches

The Briscoe Law Firm, PLLC is a full service business litigation and shareholder rights advocacy firm with more than 20 years of experience in complex litigation matters, including claims of investor and stockholder fraud, shareholder derivative suits, and securities class actions.

Under a state law passed in June of last year, ride - hailing contractors are required to pass a criminal background check, but county lawmakers lobbied for more thorough vetting for prospective contractors in Westchester amid a slew of allegations against Uber and its employees, including a class action suit claiming drivers had sexually assaulted customers.

A class - action suit, claiming personal and property damage to more than a million Florida residents, is filed against the malathion manufacturer Cheminova.

The Zurich - based firm, in an examination of the consequences of globalization of class actions on insurers, said, «We expect, however, that climate change - related liability will develop more quickly than asbestos - related claims and believe the frequency and sustainability of climate change - related litigation could become a significant issue within the next couple of years...»

The parties to a putative class action lawsuit claiming that the federal courts» PACER system routinely overcharges for document downloads have asked the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for more time to engage in settlement discussions, agreeing that discussions so far have been productive.

The context of the second is the recent push for more class actions before the English and European courts particularly for competition law claims.

The resultant «carriage dispute» confirms the simple axiom that two or more certified class actions can not exist in the same jurisdiction purporting to represent the same class in relation to the same claim.

David Assor, a Montreal lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Danone class action, agrees that other provinces are more strict about requiring reliance on what is claimed on the label.

Inc. paid out more than US$ 20 million to settle a class action and consumer protection claims brought forward by a number of state governments, over the health benefits it attributed to its yogurt and a dairy drink product (In 2013, it settled a similar class action proceeding in Quebec, where it is known as Danone Inc., for an estimated $ 1.7 million, without admitting any wrongdoing).

Individual consumers can't afford to exercise their legal remedies, while class action claims are usually far more lucrative for plaintiff's lawyers than the plaintiffs themselves.

Contact our lawyers directly for more information about class action lawsuits and to find out whether or not your claim will need to be filed separately or as part of a group of claims.

We are experienced in the filing of class action lawsuits It is not a rare occasion to find that there is more than one person who wants to file a claim because of Depuy hip replacement complications in your area and at the same time as you.

Established in 1992, Australia's federal class action regime was developed to promote the more efficient resolution of multiple claims sharing common issues, to increase access to justice for small claimants and to safeguard the interests of group members and respondents alike.

She has more than three decades of experience navigating business disputes, contractual and statutory claims, business torts, product liability, class actions, mass actions, and licensing matters.

The pleadings met the requirements of section 4 (1) of the Class Proceedings Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 50, setting out a cause of action, an identifiable class of two or more persons, common issues to be determined in the claims of the class members, and a representative plaintiff who fairly and adequately represented the proposed cClass Proceedings Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 50, setting out a cause of action, an identifiable class of two or more persons, common issues to be determined in the claims of the class members, and a representative plaintiff who fairly and adequately represented the proposed cclass of two or more persons, common issues to be determined in the claims of the class members, and a representative plaintiff who fairly and adequately represented the proposed cclass members, and a representative plaintiff who fairly and adequately represented the proposed classclass.

We believe that class action claims often help the attorneys more than they help the individuals affected by defective implants.

And they want to make it more difficult for them to join their claims together in class actions, so individuals would have to litigate their construction defect case entirely on their own even though everyone in the complex has the same problem.

More recently, there have been several cases in which class actions have been certified for claims arising out of historical sexual abuse and, in particular, sexual abuse claims against private schools, religious organizations and government - run facilities.

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Notable mandates: Acted for Soltoro Ltd. in connection with its successful disposition by plan of arrangement to Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd.; co-counsel for Trillium Motor World Ltd. in class action against General Motors of Canada Ltd. and Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP; acted for Canadian Solar Inc. in connection with raising an aggregate of US$ 50 million in equity and US$ 100 million in debt financing for acquisition financing and working capital purposes; external counsel to the Regional Municipality of York, providing a wide range of municipal, real estate, expropriation, litigation, and commercial law advice and services; counsel to minority shareholder of a Nevis LLC worth more than US$ 500 million with respect to a claim for relief from unfair prejudice in litigation in Nevis and the Commercial Division of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in British Virgin Islands, and in contemporaneous related actions in Belize and the United States.

In this securities class action, 250 class members claimed their broker had engaged in unauthorized trading when he moved their money out of the stock market to a more conservative investment allocation just days before a market crash.

Mass tort claims are usually more complicated than class action lawsuits because they do not always follow standard procedure.

Despite the findings in Holland's Case and the recent class - action lawsuit against the CIBC, claiming overtime pay for employees who have worked more than eight hours in a day or were «forced» to work through lunch, employees shouldn't assume they too are entitled to overtime pay.

The Issues In the class action, the plaintiff claims that TELUS overcharged customers by rounding... [more]

More recently, employees of KPMG LLP filed a class - action case against their employer claiming what could amount to between $ 65 million and $ 100 million in damages for unpaid overtime.

Don has participated in the defence of a number of class action law suits, including products liability, insurance and health claims... (more)

Respondents» counsel answered that if Congress was concerned about the «evasion of the PSLRA» in securities class actions alleging Securities Act claims, there were «10 different easier ways and more clear ways» that it could have removed the existence of concurrent jurisdiction for those cases (but it did not).

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)

Beth Bookwalter has represented corporations and individuals in a wide range of matters, including securities fraud class actions, derivative actions, false claims actions... Read More

«The more adventuresome claims are unlikely to be commenced given the courts have now articulated the ground rules for the application of the BPCPA in the class action context.»

«We have very unique litigation matters whether it's a major commercial dispute, major claims litigation matter, class action, whatever it might be, so from my perspective I like to be able to pick the specific lawyer or lawyers working on the file, especially now that I know the team more.

We have also represented the Government of Canada (with a Torys team led by the former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci) in resolving approximately 15,000 Indian Residential Schools claims and more than 20 class actions commenced in virtually all Canadian provinces and territories; the settlement was the largest and most complex class action settlement in Canadian history.

Litigating more than 100 class actions and collective actions in California, New York, Georgia, and Maryland involving a variety of employment issues, including wage - hour and discrimination claims, and successfully defeating motions for class certification on such claims in both federal and state courts.

If this claim is not resolved quickly by Access America we are going to repost an e-mail address here and on other sites to rally the troops, collect interested parties info, and set into motion a class action lawsuit that will make Access America wished it had never insulted the memory of our loving grandmother by insisting we provide them with more then adequate proof of her «natural» and untimely death.

Back in the mid-1980s, the National Organization for Women filed a class - action lawsuit against the auto insurance industry, claiming discrimination; according to the complaint, auto insurers were charging more for policies covering women drivers, despite the fact that statically, women have fewer accidents.

The news comes as some 60,000 people have now signed up to the suit, 25,000 of which have assigned their claims to join the class action, and 35,000 of which have registered to assign their claims when and if the suit widens to cover more users.