Sentences with phrase «national class action»

Koskie Minsky LLP, Colin Stevenson and Harvin Pitch act together for the plaintiffs in a proposed national class action against General Motors of Canada Limited and General Motors Corporation.

Penalties can include double damages and even plaintiff attorneys can be liable, Frank Qesada, an attorney with MSP Recovery, a Miami law firm that has filed numerous national class actions on behalf of private Medicare providers, told Forbes.

Represented a global medical device manufacturer in national class action involving claims for fraud and false advertising in marketing of medical testing devices

Alabama plans to use the Praxis II exams manufactured by the Educational Testing Service, the same tests that are the focus of national class action lawsuits for scoring errors.

Carlton Fields National Class Actions practice group leader, Julianna Thomas McCabe, was quoted in the Forbes article, «SCOTUS To Decide Arbitration Issue; Unclear If Trump Pick Will Be On Bench In Time.»

Defeating proposed national class actions involving the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and other claims.

Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos handles statewide and national class action lawsuits on behalf of persons with disabilities who have been denied access to employment, business, education, or government facilities and services.

However, the provincial legislatures should pay more attention to the framework for national class actions and the problems they present.

National class action defense firm that emphasizes winning at trial by simplifying the issues for the juries in complicated cases.

If you are looking for information on a specific class action, you may find the Canadian Bar Association's National Class Action Database helpful.

A U.S. District Court Judge in the Central District of California today dismissed a putative national class action brought against Umeken USA, Inc., a leading manufacturer of dietary supplements and its Chief Executive Officer.

In separate cases, acted as lead counsel for two manufacturers of consumer products in the same industry in defending purported national class actions challenging warranty practices and disclosures.

Eloise Gratton B.C. Supreme Court Certifies National Class Action for Financial Institution Data Breach

Litigators comprise almost one - quarter of Eversheds Sutherland's attorneys, and we represent financial services clients in national class actions as well as state and federal courts.

In the process of defending large national class actions, Sterling Cluff saw firsthand how defendants can take advantage of individual consumers and the benefit that individuals gain in their fight against formidable corporations by banding together to form classes with the force of «what's right» behind them.

Obtained dismissal with prejudice of a putative national class action on behalf of our client, a health plan, in a claim of wrongfully denied mental health care benefits filed in federal court.

The scope of its review will be broad, ranging from improving «take - up rates» by class members, canvassing different funding options for class actions, and providing guidance for when national class actions are appropriate.

Acted as lead counsel for an automobile rental company in defending a purported national class action challenging certain standard charges in the consumer rental contract.

About the Carlton Fields National Class Action Practice: Carlton Fields has litigated and counseled clients in hundreds of class actions for more than 30 years in federal and state courts across the nation, and in arbitrations.

«There are serious difficulties with many national class actions that we have to deal with, and this is one example of it,» says Barry Glaspell, a class actions lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.

According to Osler, nearly half of privacy class actions initiated in Canada have been commenced in Ontario — which is not surprising given that most national class actions are initiated in this province purely for logistical reasons, says lawyer Jeff Orenstein of the class action law firm Consumer Law Group.

Representatives from Sotos LLP, Siskinds LLP and Koskie Minsky LLP authored the submission to the CBA, which was produced in response to the notice of consultation from the CBA's national class actions task force, created in October.

«She's going to be working with a team of lawyers from across Ontario on some of our big national class actions, a much broader range of legal experiences than you would ordinarily get if you're working in an office in Elliot Lake where you're typically doing small - town solicitor work,» he says.

Rob Gain specializes in commercial litigation for Koskie Minsky LLP and says that having no co-ordinated approach to national class actions wastes the court's, claimants» and defendants» time.

Panelist, 2015 ABA National Class Action Institute, «When the Supreme Court Speaks, Does Anyone Listen?»

He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association's National Class Action Task Force, exploring the development of judicial protocols to manage overlapping multi-province class actions in Canada.

Gresham successfully represented victims in the first national class action against Google and Yahoo! for «click fraud.»

The duo is aiming to obtain national class action status for their suit which would allow anyone with an impacted device to seek damages from Apple.

Owners of residential properties clad with Exterior and Finish System components (EIFS) sold by Senergy Inc., a subsidiary of Harris Specialty Chemicals Inc., may be eligible to receive repairs or cash payments from a recently negotiated partial national class action settlement.

As Compliance Dispute Review Officer pursuant to the settlement of two national class actions brought by a number of state medical societies against a health insurer, Mr. Quinn mediates and decides all disputes concerning compliance with settlement terms that regulate the conduct of the insurer and participating physicians under health insurance plans

«We see evidence of steadily increasing volume and complexity,» said Julianna McCabe, director of Carlton Fields» Class Action Survey and chair of the firm's National Class Actions practice group.

See, e.g., Lintz v. Lintz, 222 Cal.App.4 th 1346 (2014)(leading case in state on testamentary capacity); In re Apple, Device Address Book Litigation (2014)(appointed lead attorney in nationwide class action); In re Cathode Ray Tube Antitrust litigation (2013)(attorneys for Dell Computer in national class action).

Glaspell also says while the legal system has dealt with many national class actions, the difficulty, as this case shows, is often how to implement them.

National class action settlement for improper denial of warranty coverage for iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

On the other hand, the Supreme Court of Canada in Canada Post v. Lépine called on provincial legislatures to pay more attention to the framework for national class actions, and recommended establishing more effective methods for managing jurisdictional disputes:

Rodrigue told Legal Feeds she will be at the Montreal office two days a week and will continue to commute to Toronto as she has for the past seven years as the former co-chair of the national class actions team at Norton Rose and its predecessor Ogilvy Renault, where she began her career as a stagiare 22 years ago.

«The Jimenez family has been irreparably changed as a result of something that could have been and should have been prevented,» added Eidson, who is also Co-Lead Counsel for the plaintiffs in the national class action against Ford and Firestone now pending in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Author: Abbey Spanier Rodd & Abrams is a national class action and complex litigation law firm in New York City.

Finally, Mr. Ringler was appointed as one of nine lead attorneys to prosecute a national class action against Toyota Motor Corporation arising out of the sudden acceleration claims filed by hundreds of attorneys across the country.

Mr. Ringler has served in a leadership role on numerous occasions involving state - wide mass tort actions and has served as well in a leadership role involving a national class action.

The Toyota national class action is one of the largest national class actions prosecuted over the past twenty years in the United States.

In a medical products liability case which is certified as a national class action, can the representative plaintiff obtain access to the names and contact information of users of the medical product in order to provide them with notice of the action, or do the privacy interests of those individuals prohibit access to their names and contact information?

Soon after, plaintiff class action law firm Merchant Law Group LLP launched a national class action on behalf of «all Canadians who, have between 2001 and 2017, purchased packaged bread from certain retailers in Canada, and were subjected to paying higher prices due to a price - fixing conspiracy in the grocery industry (including Loblaw and Superstore, Weston Foods, Sobeys, Metro, Wal - Mart stores, and Giant Tiger Stores.)»

On Jan. 2, 2007, the Canadian Bar Association launched the National Class Action Database, a repository for information and documents about new class actions across Canada.