Sentences with phrase «plaintiff class»

Counsel in plaintiff class action lawsuits have a tremendous amount of pressure upon their shoulders already, and international litigation only serves to further complicate matters.

A toxic tort claim can be brought by an individual or a defined plaintiff class in a mass tort claim.

In a class proceeding, one plaintiff class consisted of patients testing negative for the disease, but alleging psychological injury from being informed they might be infected.

Does your firm handle large plaintiff class - actions and collect a high volume of personally identifiable information from participants in these cases?

Product liability litigation is often the preserve of plaintiff class action lawyers and large Bay Street defence firms, not Main Street law firms.

Armed with reams of expert opinions, lawyers for the airlines convinced Leitch that foreign courts in many of the 100 - plus countries from which plaintiff class members derived would not respect the Van Breda test giving Canadian courts jurisdiction.

I expect that many most lawyers who represent plaintiff classes would publicly disagree with me, if the barratry proposition was put to them.

There's likely already (if not it's on the horizon) a beauty contest going on amongst the leading plaintiff class action firms to see who'll scoop the prize.

Before starting her own firm, she practiced at a preeminent plaintiff class action firm for many years.

Lascaris is one of Canada's most prominent plaintiff class action lawyers.

In addition to Snyder from Castillo Snyder, other lawyers representing the putative plaintiffs class include Peter Morgenstern of New York's Morgenstern & Blue and Douglas Buncher and Nicholas Foley of Dallas's Neligan Foley.

Defended publicly traded corporation against multi-billion dollar claims in multi-district class action litigation wherein plaintiff class alleged Civil RICO violations arising from company's delivery of health care services.

LONDON, ONTARIO — Chambers Canada, announced its official 2018 legal rankings results and once again named Harrison Pensa as one of Canada's top - tier firms in the area of plaintiff class action litigation.

Under his leadership, the Legal 500 has recognized Cohen Milstein as a Leading Plaintiff Class Action Firm for seven years in a row and Law360 selected the Antitrust Practice Group as a Competition Law Practice Group of the Year in 2013 and 2014.

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.)»

Wagner: Cohen Milstein has obviously attempted to construct the broadest possible group of Intel employees as participants in the plaintiff class in order to ensure a large damages award.

It is important for food industry businesses and decision makers to anticipate and understand any newfound tactics of the plaintiff class action bar, and to form a plan of action to respond to these new tactics.

The court ruled that, for purposes of summary judgment, the plaintiff class established a defect not because their individually purchased products contained biological contaminants, but rather because the act of recalling potentially contaminated food provided evidence of a product defect.

It is gratifying to see eHarmony, Inc. support matching for the gay and lesbian community, which makes the Internet a more open place,» said Joshua Konecky of Schneider Wallace, co-lead counsel for the plaintiff class.

The plaintiff class claims that the Company was unjustly enriched as a result of the level of payment the detainees received for work performed at the facility, even though the voluntary work program as well as the wage rates and standards associated with the program that are at issue in the case are authorized by the Federal government under guidelines approved by the United States Congress.

The plaintiff class seeks actual damages, compensatory damages, exemplary damages, punitive damages, restitution, attorneys» fees and costs, and such other relief as the Court may deem proper.

Under the terms of the agreement, Blue Buffalo will pay $ 32 million into a settlement fund to settle the claims of the plaintiff class.

Heilman said he hopes to represent a plaintiff class that would include all individuals who applied for and received an SPG - branded American Express card but did not receive the promised hotel loyalty points.

An Ontario Superior Court justice has found that the class action lawsuit brought against Deloitte LLP by lawyers who had reviewed documents for the firm constituted a success for the plaintiff class, and he has granted the representative plaintiff for the class a cost award.

Deloitte had asked for a cost award to the plaintiff class of $ 90,000 and that that award be further reduced to around $ 72,000 to reflect Deloitte's cost of cross-examining the first representative plaintiff, who was rejected by the court.

In the litigation, the Plaintiff class sought more than $ 80 million alleging that Mr. Hughes, along with Public Storage, undervalued partnership units when negotiating a merger in 2011.

Andy Freeman was named the Best Lawyers 2014 Baltimore Mass Tort Litigation / Plaintiffs Class Actions Lawyer of the Year; ranked Tier 1 for Mass Tort Litigation / Plaintiffs Class Action in the 2017 «Best Law Firms» list.

«I have met with a couple of the plaintiff class action firms who are counting the number of sleeps until July 1,» said Peter Clausi, executive vice president corporate affairs and general counsel at GTA Resources and Mining Inc. «I think they are going to wind up being the Wade Boggs of litigation — they're going to go to the hall of fame hitting singles.»

Ms. Webber was also counsel to the plaintiff class in Keepseagle v. Vilsack, a historic settlement between Native American farmers and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Lash & Goldberg LLP is equally at home leading litigation on behalf of the plaintiff class.

Lawyers for the plaintiff class said in a press release that the ruling is a «significant step forward for misclassified workers who do not have the same protections as employees.»

«This certification motion shows that employers who misclassify employees as contractors can have substantial liability towards those workers, no matter what the contract says,» said plaintiff class lawyer Andrew Monkhouse.

Represented a major European airline in negotiating a settlement with the plaintiff class action in the air cargo price fixing litigation pending in the Eastern District of New York

The firm also acted for the plaintiff class in Joseph v. Quik Payday Inc., and Mortillaro v. Cash Money seeking compensation for the criminal rates of interest that the defendant companies were alleged to charge on their «payday loans».

It's an idea whose time has come and the gauntlet has now been laid down to the plaintiff class bar to up its settlement notice game.

The Plaintiff class consisted of 171 Air Ontario pilots, five of whom were appointed as representative Plaintiffs.

In this six - week jury trial, the trial judge refused to dismiss at least three jurors who were related to or knew members of the plaintiff class, and the jury found in favor of the plaintiff class.

Based on the overbreadth of some of the injunction provisions, the district court — after some injunction proceedings and an 11 - day bench trial — concluded that plaintiff class members had to be provided the opportunity to contest they were active gang members subject to the injunction even though Orange tried to circumvent this result by dismissing the four individuals in the anti-gang injunction state court proceeding.

According to the New York Times, at the heart of the bill is a requirement that every member of the plaintiff class suffered the «same type and scope of injury.»

The plaintiff class consisted of members from 51 jurisdictions.

Working with the expert economists it retained, Pearson, Simon & Warshaw built a trading model from the DTCC trade data that identified the members of the plaintiff class, their individual trades of CDS, and the amount each class member was harmed as a result of defendants» anti-competitive conduct.

If you have not submitted a claim and you believe you are a member of the Plaintiff Class, you should act now.